Georgia Milestones Grade 7 ELA Informational Key Terms Review

What are passages that explain or inform?

• informational texts

• Persuasive passages
• Descriptive passages
• Narratives

What is an objective summary?

• an overview of a passage that does not give every detail and does not include opinions

• the attitude of an author about a subject or an audience

• the way in which a passage is structured

• a series of events happened

The ______________ is the most important point of idea that the author is making in a passage.

How ideas influence individuals or events or how individuals influence ideas or events is known as ________________________.

• facts

• opinions

• tone

• interactions

What is the attitude of an author about a subject or an audience?

• tone

• mood

• inference

• interactions

__________________ refers to the symbolic meaning of words or phrases.

• figurative meaning

• connotative meaning

• denotative meaning

• technical meaning

___________________ is a meaning beyond the explicit meaning of a word.

• figurative meaning

• connotative meaning

• denotative meaning

• technical meaning

What is the explicit meaning of a word?

• figurative meaning

• connotative meaning

• denotative meaning

• technical meaning

______________ is the meaning of a word as it relates to a specific subject or process.

• figurative meaning

• connotative meaning

• denotative meaning

• technical meaning

______________ refers to the way in which a passage is structured.