Grade 5 · ELA / English

Grade 5 ELA / English questions and answers

Reading, grammar, and vocabulary for US elementary school. Written in American English for students, parents, and teachers in the United States.

Full ELA / English quiz All Grade 5 subjects

Topics

Main idea

Find the point of a passage.

 Figurative language

Simile, metaphor, and idiom.

Practice quiz

Question and answer list

Open a card to see the answer. These are original practice items for US elementary students — not a state test copy.

1. To find the main idea, ask

Answer: What is this mostly about?

2. A good title often hints at the

Answer: main idea

3. Details that do not fit should be

Answer: left out of a summary

4. A summary is

Answer: short and covers key points

5. The topic is the subject; the main idea is

Answer: the point about that subject

6. Headings in a science article help you

Answer: locate main ideas fast

7. If most sentences are about recycling, the main idea is likely about

Answer: recycling

8. A supporting detail might be

Answer: a fact, example, or reason

9. A simile uses

Answer: like or as

10. “Busy as a bee” is a

Answer: simile

11. A metaphor says one thing

Answer: is another

12. “The classroom was a zoo” means

Answer: it was noisy and busy

13. An idiom’s meaning is

Answer: not word-for-word

14. “It’s raining cats and dogs” means

Answer: it is raining hard

15. Personification gives

Answer: human traits to things

16. “The wind whispered” is

Answer: personification

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