Language Arts Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
Onomatopoeia - answer✔Sound-effect word: bam, swish, boom, fizz
Alliteration - 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 - answer✔Brief description in a newspaper or magazine telling who or what appears in
the picture.
Character Development - answer✔Way in which an author shows how a character changes as the
story continues.
Comparative Adjective - answer✔Used to compare a noun to another noun such as:
She is the smarter of the two sisters.
Concluding Paragraph - 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 - 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 - answer✔A word that is used to join words, phrases, or sentences
Examples include and, but, or, not, yet, for, and so.
Free Verse - answer✔Poetry that doesn't follow a set pattern....It doesn't rhyme necessarily.