7th Grade ELA Final Practice

a central topic, subject, or message within a literary work

• resolution

• protagonist

• theme

• character traits

the end of the story where the main conflict is resolved

• resolution

• protagonist

• dynamic character

• character traits

the main character in a story

• resolution

• protagonist

• theme

• character traits

the author interrupts the plot to recreate an event of earlier time

• flashback

• plot

• simile

• personification

events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution

• flashback

• simile

• personification

• falling action

giving human qualities to nonhuman things

• flashback

• plot

• personification

• falling action

what happens in a story; the chain of events that make up a story

• flashback

• plot

• personification

• falling action

a comparison that uses the words like or as

• simile

• plot

• personification

• falling action

a point of view where the narrator knows all

• third person omniscient

• verse

• mood

• symbolism

the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story

• third person omniscient

• verse

• static character

• mood