English 7 Termanology Review

Which figurative language is being used in the following sentence?

I am as excited as a child on Christmas.

• Personification

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

What is the organizational pattern - process?

• a word and its definition is given

• told in the order it occurred

• tells you how to do something

• the turning point of the story

What is the resolution of the story?

• tells you how to do something

• Hints the author gives to help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word.

• How the author feels toward a character or situation. Examples include cheerful, regretful, lighthearted

• It is the part in a story or plot in which the conflict and/or problems are being resolved

What is the main idea or central idea of the following passage?

"Sir Isaac Newton was contemplating the universe in his garden one day in 1665 when he noticed an apple fall from a tree. Newton wondered to himself, “Why should the apple always fall to the ground? Why does it not go sideways or upwards but directly toward the Earth’s center?” After much contemplation, Newton concluded that objects are pulled to the Earth through a force that he called gravity, which means heaviness in Latin. On July 5th, 1687 Newton formally expressed his law of universal gravitation in a series of books called The Principia."

• the turning point of the story

• A falling apple inspired Sir Isaac Newton to think about gravity.

• When you as the reader figure out what the author is hinting at

• Marie Curie did amazing work with radiation that caused her health problems later.

Figurative Language

• Language that is not taken literally

• Un-

• Simile

• The turning point of the story

What is the prefix in the word undecided

What is the organization pattern - sequential/chronological?

• a word and its definition is given

• Alliteration

• Personification

• told in the order it occurred

What is the main idea or central idea of the following passage?

"Marie Curie not only the first woman to have won a Nobel Prize, she is also the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences. Most notably, however, Marie Curie discovered radiation. She was also the first person to use radiation to treat tumors. Curie experimented extensively with radioactivity during her scientific career. Unfortunately, the damaging effects of radiation were not known then. Her exposure to radiation most likely was the cause of her blindness and early death. Still today her scientific papers are considered too dangerous to handle without protective equipment. These documents are stored in lead-lined boxes. Even her cookbook is radioactive. She must have made some really hot food in her lifetime."

• In-

• Questions where the answer can be found by looking back a the passage.

• Words that have the same root, but that root can by found at the beginning , middle, or end of a word.

• Marie Curie did amazing work with radiation that caused her health problems later.

What is the tone of a story?

• their mother

• a word and its given definition

• How the author feels toward a character or situation. Examples include cheerful, regretful, lighthearted

• lists ideas, facts, etc. and can be in any order

What is a summary?

• Because of one thing, something else happened

• Restating what happened in a story in a few words

• Questions where the answer can be found by looking back in the passage

• Matching the relationship of the first pair with the relationship of the second pair.