SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Reading And Writing Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
english
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The solution in the story
Resolution
Focus
Third Person Point of View
Flashback
2. A passage taken out of a book
Excerpt
Simile
Cause
Autobiography
3. The introduction of a past event into a story
Flashback
Narrative Writing
Generalization
Idiom
4. The differences
Compare
Content
Contrast
Third Person Point of View
5. Using surrounding words or phrases to help you understand the meaning of a word
Stanza
Context Clues
Focus
Cause
6. One of the five domains of writing; transition words - paper has a flow to it; beginning - middle - and end; sequencing
Summarize
Flashback
Organization
Compare
7. Sources which are taken from an original work; example: books
Secondary Sources
Biography
Character Traits
Generalization
8. Stating in your own words the important things you have read
Fiction
Summarize
Autobiography
Author's Viewpoint
9. A conclusion drawn from specific information that is used to make a broad statement about a topic
Poetry
Genre
Third Person Point of View
Generalization
10. Personalities of a character: honest - determined - loyal - etc.
Poetry
Narrative Writing
Character Traits
Flashback
11. A phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say
Author's Viewpoint
Autobiography
Nonfiction
Idiom
12. A writing piece where the writer is trying to convince or persuade the reader to agree with him or her
Summarize
Paraphrase
Focus
Persuasive Writing
13. The author's central thought; the overall idea in a paragraph or passage
Main Idea
Resolution
Narrative Writing
Idiom
14. One of the five domains of writing: staying on topic
Author's Viewpoint
Focus
Onomatopoeia
Character Traits
15. What someone thinks or feels and can be argued
Main Idea
Opinion
Generalization
Story Elements
16. A judgment based on reasoning rather than a direct or explicit statement
Biography
Summarize
Narrative Writing
Inference
17. A writing piece that informs or explains something
Jargon
Compare
Biography
Informational Writing
18. A comparison of two things using like or as
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Climax
Compare
19. The similarities
Compare
Resolution
Excerpt
Narrative Writing
20. Text or first-hand account of an event; example: interview
Secondary Sources
Contrast
Autobiography
Primary Sources
21. One of the five domains of writing: adding figurative language - buzz words - sentence variety and your voice into your writing
Inference
Style
Conventions
Jargon
22. A tendency to favor one side; a prejudice
Nonfiction
Fiction
Bias
Narrative Writing
23. To restate the information in your own words
Paraphrase
Fiction
Flashback
Simile
24. Having a similar meaning to the word
Hyperbole
Author's Purpose
Synonym
Focus
25. An idea - object - or animal given the characteristics of a person
Plot
Personification
Narrative Writing
Idiom
26. The structure of a story; includes the problem and solution
Fact
Summarize
Plot
Foreshadowing
27. Each character in the story is referred by the narrator as 'he' or 'she'
Summarize
Third Person Point of View
Synonym
Paraphrase
28. Story that is true; a product of factual information
Organization
Effect
Nonfiction
Autobiography
29. The turning point in a story
Personification
Climax
Contrast
Homophone/Homonym
30. The story of a person's life written by himself or herself
First Person Point of View
Cause
Autobiography
Style
31. The story is relayed by a narrator who is also a character in the story; uses 'I' throughout the story
Poetry
Summarize
First Person Point of View
Genre
32. Time and place in which a story unfolds
Setting
Effect
Homophone/Homonym
Primary Sources
33. The author's intent: to persuade - to entertain - to inform or teach
34. A statement that is true and can be proven
Rhyme
Climax
Homophone/Homonym
Fact
35. A category used to classify literary works: drama - historical fiction - fantasy - mystery - realistic fiction - etc.
Excerpt
Story Elements
Conventions
Genre
36. A story that is not true; a product of imagination
Personification
Context Clues
Fiction
Climax
37. One of the five domains; capitalization - punctuation - complete sentences - spelling - etc.
Style
Resolution
Conventions
Inference
38. How the author organizes the information in the story: by main ideas and details - by sequence of events - or by cause and effect - etc.
Setting
Primary Sources
Text Organization
Plot
39. The result; happens second
Effect
Story Elements
Stanza
Third Person Point of View
40. The components of a narrative story: setting - characters and plot (problem and solution)
Informational Writing
Content
Story Elements
Fiction
41. Technical language of a particular group
Summarize
Jargon
Narrative Writing
Synonym
42. One of the five domains of writing: detailed examples - sophisticated sentences; etc.
Synonym
Contrast
Style
Content
43. Identical or very recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of the lines
Text Organization
Autobiography
Bias
Rhyme
44. A verse of a poem
Bias
Idiom
Synonym
Stanza
45. How the author thinks or feels about a particular topic
46. The action or event - happens first
Bias
Cause
First Person Point of View
Context Clues
47. Having an opposite meaning to the word
Effect
Plot
Setting
Antonym
48. Words pronounced the same but have a different meaning and spelling
Paraphrase
Nonfiction
Stanza
Homophone/Homonym
49. An exaggeration or overstatement
Author's Purpose
Text Organization
Fact
Hyperbole
50. A comparison of two things without like or as
Fiction
Third Person Point of View
Story Elements
Metaphor