ELA B.E.S.T. Academic Vocabulary 7th Grade

What is perspective?

• The feeling experienced by the reader

• the author’s attitude toward a topic or subject

• The time and place of a story

• The main struggle in a story

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the theme?

• The underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, film or other work

• The art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people.

• Language characterized by figures of speech (e.g., metaphor, symbolism)

• The author’s attitude toward a topic or subject.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Match the following

• the most intense point of a story. The point where the outcome of the conflict be decided

• climax

• time and place

• setting

• how the conflict is resolved

• rising action

• the steady increase in tension

• resolution

• struggle faced by the characters

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the rhetoric?

• The underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, film or other work

• The art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people.

• Language characterized by figures of speech (e.g., metaphor, symbolism)

• The author’s attitude toward a topic or subject.

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

When you analyze a text, you _______________.

• judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount or value of something

• form an opinion from evidence; to reach a conclusion based on known facts.

• study or examine something in detail in order to discover more about it.

• say something that someone else has said or written using different words

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

What is the author's perspective?

• The underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, film or other work

• The art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people.

• Language characterized by figures of speech (e.g., metaphor, symbolism)

• The author’s attitude toward a topic or subject.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

What is syntax?

• the way in which an author arranges those words

• the author’s word choice; the formation of sentences and the associated grammatical rules

• capable of being believed

• determining the spelling of a word based on the sounds in the word

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What is figurative language?

• The underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, film or other work

• The art or skill of speaking or writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people.

• Language characterized by figures of speech (e.g., metaphor, symbolism)

• The author’s attitude toward a topic or subject.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When you evaluate a text, you _______________.

• judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount or value of something

• form an opinion from evidence; to reach a conclusion based on known facts.

• study or examine something in detail in order to discover more about it.

• say something that someone else has said or written using different words

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

When you infer while reading a text, you _______________.

• judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount or value of something

• form an opinion from evidence; to reach a conclusion based on known facts.

• study or examine something in detail in order to discover more about it.

• say something that someone else has said or written using different words

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10