7th grade ELA Vocabulary Review

Front

What is the time and place of a story?

Back

setting

Front

What are the problems or struggles in a story?

Back

conflict

Front

What are the series of events that tell what happen in a story?

Back

plot

Front

What is an incident in the story where an author goes back in time to explain something that happened earlier?

Back

flashback

Front

What is exaggeration for effect?

Back

hyperbole

Front

What is an event that takes place in a story and gives the reader a clue about something that will happen later?

Back

foreshadowing

Front

What do you call events arranged in the order of time they happened?

Back

chronological order

Front

What is conversation between two or more people in a story?

Back

dialogue

Front

What is tone?

Back

a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject

Front

What is the exposition?

Back

Beginning of story that introduces the characters, setting, and conflict.