5th grade ELA EXAM NEWEST 2025
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
setting - Answer- where and when the story takes place
conflict - Answer- the problem in the story
resolution - Answer- how the problem is solved or fixed;
the ending or final outcome of a story
main idea - Answer- what a piece of writing (or paragraph) is mainly about
< main idea is usually told using 1 sentence>
supporting details - Answer- sentences that give the reader specific facts, descriptions &
examples that help them to better understand the main idea
<Details should NOT be included in the summary of a text>
summary (summarize) - Answer- a short paragraph that tells the main events (or most
important ideas) from the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
<summary is usually told using 3-4 sentences>
theme - Answer- The repeated message in a text that helps the reader understand more
about life or human behavior.
persuasive - Answer- a type of writing used to persuade (or convince) the reader of the
author's point-of-view
procedural - Answer- a type of writing that tells "how to" do something
<procedural texts usually use "sequential order" as its organizational text structure>
myth - Answer- a fictional story that uses supernatural beings (gods/goddesses) to
teach a moral or explain natural phenomena
origin - Answer- a beginning or coming into being
, autobiography - Answer- the story of a person's life written by that person in first person
point of view
biography - Answer- the story of a person's life written by someone else using third
person point of view
point of view - Answer- the perspective from which a story is told
first person point of view - Answer- Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters
using the pronouns "I", "me", "my", & "we"
<The narrator and a character become 'one' / they are the same person>
alliteration - Answer- the repeating of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
personification - Answer- giving human qualities to non-human things
simile - Answer- comparing 2 things by using the words "like" or "as"
idiom - Answer- an expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the
individual words
convey - Answer- to tell
flashback - Answer- when a portion of the story goes back in time
foreshadow - Answer- when an author uses clues to help the reader to figure out what
events will happen later in the plot
inference/infer - Answer- when a reader uses clues from the text (textual evidence) plus
what they already know about human life to draw a conclusion
justify - Answer- to prove; to show that something is right; to defend with reasons
thesaurus - Answer- a resource used to find a list of a word's synonyms and antonyms
context clues - Answer- Clues in the text that help the reader determine (or figure out)
the meaning of an unknown word
genre - Answer- a type of literature
dialogue - Answer- a conversation between two characters in a story
<quotation marks " " are placed around the words that the characters say to each
other>
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
setting - Answer- where and when the story takes place
conflict - Answer- the problem in the story
resolution - Answer- how the problem is solved or fixed;
the ending or final outcome of a story
main idea - Answer- what a piece of writing (or paragraph) is mainly about
< main idea is usually told using 1 sentence>
supporting details - Answer- sentences that give the reader specific facts, descriptions &
examples that help them to better understand the main idea
<Details should NOT be included in the summary of a text>
summary (summarize) - Answer- a short paragraph that tells the main events (or most
important ideas) from the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
<summary is usually told using 3-4 sentences>
theme - Answer- The repeated message in a text that helps the reader understand more
about life or human behavior.
persuasive - Answer- a type of writing used to persuade (or convince) the reader of the
author's point-of-view
procedural - Answer- a type of writing that tells "how to" do something
<procedural texts usually use "sequential order" as its organizational text structure>
myth - Answer- a fictional story that uses supernatural beings (gods/goddesses) to
teach a moral or explain natural phenomena
origin - Answer- a beginning or coming into being
, autobiography - Answer- the story of a person's life written by that person in first person
point of view
biography - Answer- the story of a person's life written by someone else using third
person point of view
point of view - Answer- the perspective from which a story is told
first person point of view - Answer- Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters
using the pronouns "I", "me", "my", & "we"
<The narrator and a character become 'one' / they are the same person>
alliteration - Answer- the repeating of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
personification - Answer- giving human qualities to non-human things
simile - Answer- comparing 2 things by using the words "like" or "as"
idiom - Answer- an expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the
individual words
convey - Answer- to tell
flashback - Answer- when a portion of the story goes back in time
foreshadow - Answer- when an author uses clues to help the reader to figure out what
events will happen later in the plot
inference/infer - Answer- when a reader uses clues from the text (textual evidence) plus
what they already know about human life to draw a conclusion
justify - Answer- to prove; to show that something is right; to defend with reasons
thesaurus - Answer- a resource used to find a list of a word's synonyms and antonyms
context clues - Answer- Clues in the text that help the reader determine (or figure out)
the meaning of an unknown word
genre - Answer- a type of literature
dialogue - Answer- a conversation between two characters in a story
<quotation marks " " are placed around the words that the characters say to each
other>
