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Grade 5 · English Language Arts · Unit 12 of 14

Style & Perspective

Imagery, voice and bias

What your child practises

Noticing imagery, humour, voice and sentence length, using book parts like the preface and glossary, and spotting one-sided opinions in persuasive writing.

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Reading: Text Analysis · style and perspective in texts

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Which sentence has the strongest, most exact word choice?

    • The comet was in the sky at night.
    • The comet blazed across the midnight sky.
    • The comet went across the sky.

  2. Question 2

    What is the writer trying to do?

    Why Our School Needs a Garden

    Our school should build a vegetable garden. Everyone knows gardens are the best thing a school can have, and nobody could possibly disagree.

    A garden would teach students where food comes from. Because students would care for plants, they would learn patience. Also, fresh vegetables could be shared at lunch.

    • explain how to cook
    • tell a made-up story
    • persuade readers to build a garden

  3. Question 3

    Which phrase uses imagery for sound?

    • the food on the stove
    • a very hot pan
    • the sizzle and pop of bacon in the pan

  4. Question 4

    Which words from the passage show voice and attitude?

    Wolf and Hare

    “I will catch you by sunrise,” Wolf growled.

    Hare laughed and twitched her long ears. “You are as slow as a cloud,” she said, “and just as noisy.”

    • “twitched her long ears”
    • “You are as slow as a cloud”
    • “by sunrise”

  5. Question 5

    Where in a book would you find an introduction to why the author wrote it?

    • the glossary
    • the preface
    • the index

  6. Question 6

    Which sentence shows cause and effect?

    Why Our School Needs a Garden

    Our school should build a vegetable garden. Everyone knows gardens are the best thing a school can have, and nobody could possibly disagree.

    A garden would teach students where food comes from. Because students would care for plants, they would learn patience. Also, fresh vegetables could be shared at lunch.

    • Also, fresh vegetables could be shared at lunch.
    • Our school should build a vegetable garden.
    • Because students would care for plants, they would learn patience.

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