Grade 7 Reading Enrichment Terms

What is genre?

• Genre is a category that defines a style or type of art, literature, music, or other forms of entertainment based on certain criteria like themes, settings, and characters.
• Genre is the life lesson of a story.

• Genre is a type of weather phenomenon.

• Genre is a form of currency.

What is Central idea?

• The moral of the story.

• Textual evidence that supports the claim.

• Central location of a city
• Main point of a text

What is theme?

• The life lesson or moral of the story

• Main character in a story
• Setting of a novel
• Plot twist in a play

What is it called when the problem in a storyline reaches its high point?

• climax
• resolution

• rising action

• characterization

What is connotation?

• Connotation is the literal meaning of a word.
• Connotation is the font style used in a text.
• Connotation is the emotional or cultural associations that a word carries beyond its literal meaning.
• Connotation is the punctuation marks within a sentence.

The emotions evoked in the reader by the author is called...

• tone
• mood
• atmosphere
• setting

Tone is...

• the mood

• the font size used
• the attitude or feeling expressed by the author

• the main idea

Language that engages our senses is called...

• Imagery

• Essay
• Drama
• Poetry

How can context clues help a reader?

• By providing incorrect definitions for known words
• By providing hints within a text to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words or phrases.
• By omitting key details necessary for comprehension
• By confusing the reader with irrelevant information

What is an antonym?

• A word with the opposite meaning of another word.
• A word that rhymes with another word.
• A word that starts with the same letter as another word.
• A word with a similar meaning to another word.