7th grade ELA Vocabulary Review

What is the time and place of a story?

• theme
• plot
• setting
• characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What are the problems or struggles in a story?

• conflict
• plot
• fiction
• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• plot
• setting
• characterization
• fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

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

• flashback
• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is exaggeration for effect?

• dialogue
• symbol
• theme
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• flashback
• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

• foreshadowing
• flashback
• chronological order
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• hyperbole
• plot
• dialogue
• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is tone?

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

• words or phrases that connect ideas, details, or events in writing

• stories, traditions, sayings, and customs of a culture or a society

  
  

  a temporary state of mind or feeling

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the exposition?

• Shows how the characters try to solve the story's main conflict. Events that lead up to the climax.

• The turning point; the most intense moment in a story. It usually involves the main character realizing how the conflict can be fixed.

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

• End of the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9