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Sixth Grade Common Core Vocabulary
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Subjects
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english
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6th-grade
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common-core
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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 main character - who must overcome obstacles and resolve the conflict
plot
protagonist
alibi
lore
2. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings - thoughts - or attitudes
onomatopeia
onomatopeia
legacy
personification
3. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
environment
etymology
inductive reasoning
mystery
4. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
idiom
alibi
interview
evidence
5. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
lore
investigator
investigator
meter
6. The main character - who must overcome obstacles and resolve the conflict
simile
protagonist
memoir
alibi
7. An account of the author's personal experiences
protagonist
epilogue
memoir
personification
8. The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
witness
inductive reasoning
epilogue
realism
9. The questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited)
interview
antagonist
memoir
protagonist
10. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened
protagonist
deductive reasoning
sleuth
witness
11. The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
inductive reasoning
interview
time
antagonist
12. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
suspect
simile
sleuth
protagonist
13. An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
red herring
idiom
environment
metaphor
14. The thought processes involved in solving a problem
alibi
problem solving
imagery
interview
15. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
memoir
environment
evidence
inductive reasoning
16. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
memoir
mystery
inductive reasoning
imagery
17. An account of the author's personal experiences
inductive reasoning
memoir
aliteration
investigator
18. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings - thoughts - or attitudes
etymology
antagonist
victim
personification
19. Any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
meter
red herring
epilogue
simile
20. The totality of surrounding conditions
legacy
environment
epilogue
sleuth
21. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
idiom
meter
imagery
interview
22. The thought processes involved in solving a problem
mystery
red herring
problem solving
lore
23. The attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
etymology
idiom
realism
aliteration
24. Words that imitate sounds
realism
imagery
onomatopeia
personification
25. Regard as untrustworthy
suspect
sleuth
evidence
inference
26. Your basis for belief or disbelief
evidence
epilogue
deductive reasoning
investigator
27. Your basis for belief or disbelief
evidence
idiom
investigator
personification
28. The ability to form mental images of things or events
metaphor
imagery
metaphor
epilogue
29. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
investigator
personification
victim
personification
30. A series of words using the same beginning letters
personification
metaphor
aliteration
red herring
31. The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
realism
onomatopeia
suspect
time
32. Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
inference
etymology
onomatopeia
deductive reasoning
33. The sequence of events in a literary work
inductive reasoning
plot
lore
problem solving
34. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
red herring
alibi
legacy
inference
35. A short passage added at the end of a literary work
onomatopeia
epilogue
evidence
etymology
36. A history of a word
onomatopeia
etymology
evidence
time
37. Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
inductive reasoning
victim
investigator
lore
38. A series of words using the same beginning letters
aliteration
meter
memoir
personification
39. The sequence of events in a literary work
imagery
plot
personification
witness
40. What a person leaves behind when he or she dies
inference
plot
realism
legacy
41. The questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited)
victim
interview
etymology
aliteration
42. A detective who follows a trail
environment
sleuth
inductive reasoning
imagery
43. Someone who investigates
time
onomatopeia
red herring
investigator
44. Someone who sees an event and reports what happened
memoir
antagonist
environment
witness
45. Knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
environment
legacy
personification
lore
46. The reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
protagonist
imagery
inference
alibi
47. (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
alibi
meter
deductive reasoning
inductive reasoning
48. What a person leaves behind when he or she dies
legacy
interview
evidence
time
49. Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
metaphor
epilogue
etymology
deductive reasoning
50. Regard as untrustworthy
suspect
environment
epilogue
alibi