Language Arts UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Onomatopoeia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Sound-effect word: bam, swish, boom, fizz
Alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Same letter or sound at the beginning of most or all
of the words in a sentence.
Example: She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore
Caption - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Brief description in a newspaper or magazine telling
who or what appears in the picture.
Character Development - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Way in which an author shows how a
character changes as the story continues.
Comparative Adjective - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Used to compare a noun to another noun
such as:
She is the smarter of the two sisters.
Concluding Paragraph - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The last paragraph in your essay or story.
It generally summarizes the essay, presents the main idea of the essay, or gives an overall
solution to a problem or argument given in the essay.
conflict - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The central struggle between opposing forces in a story
or play.
Examples are man vs. man, man vs. himself, and man vs. nature.
Coordinating Conjunction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A word that is used to join words,
phrases, or sentences
, Examples include and, but, or, not, yet, for, and so.
Free Verse - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Poetry that doesn't follow a set pattern....It doesn't
rhyme necessarily.
Generalization - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A broad statement that applies to many
individuals.
Idiom - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An expression that doesn't mean what it says:
We are all in the same boat.
Barking up the wrong tree
Costs an arm and a leg
Interjection - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A word spoken suddenly and used to express
surprise, pain, or delight.
Bah! That was a total waste of time
Wow! That was a great shot.
Ouch!
Metaphor - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Comparison of two unlike things not using the words
like or as.
The snow is a white blanket.
The playground was a zoo.
The alligator's teeth are white daggers.
Minor Character - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Characters in a story that come into contact
with the main character, but are not as important.
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Onomatopoeia - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Sound-effect word: bam, swish, boom, fizz
Alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Same letter or sound at the beginning of most or all
of the words in a sentence.
Example: She sells sea-shells down by the sea-shore
Caption - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Brief description in a newspaper or magazine telling
who or what appears in the picture.
Character Development - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Way in which an author shows how a
character changes as the story continues.
Comparative Adjective - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Used to compare a noun to another noun
such as:
She is the smarter of the two sisters.
Concluding Paragraph - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The last paragraph in your essay or story.
It generally summarizes the essay, presents the main idea of the essay, or gives an overall
solution to a problem or argument given in the essay.
conflict - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The central struggle between opposing forces in a story
or play.
Examples are man vs. man, man vs. himself, and man vs. nature.
Coordinating Conjunction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A word that is used to join words,
phrases, or sentences
, Examples include and, but, or, not, yet, for, and so.
Free Verse - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Poetry that doesn't follow a set pattern....It doesn't
rhyme necessarily.
Generalization - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A broad statement that applies to many
individuals.
Idiom - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An expression that doesn't mean what it says:
We are all in the same boat.
Barking up the wrong tree
Costs an arm and a leg
Interjection - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A word spoken suddenly and used to express
surprise, pain, or delight.
Bah! That was a total waste of time
Wow! That was a great shot.
Ouch!
Metaphor - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Comparison of two unlike things not using the words
like or as.
The snow is a white blanket.
The playground was a zoo.
The alligator's teeth are white daggers.
Minor Character - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Characters in a story that come into contact
with the main character, but are not as important.
