7th grade ELA Vocabulary Review

What is the exposition?

• Shows how the characters try to solve the story's main conflict. Events that lead up to the climax.

• The turning point; the most intense moment in a story. It usually involves the main character realizing how the conflict can be fixed.

• Beginning of story that introduces the characters, setting, and conflict.

• End of the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

What do you call events arranged in the order of time they happened?

• foreshadowing
• flashback
• chronological order
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

This is a claim that is in opposition of or that goes against the claim made by the writer.

• claim
• evidence
• counterclaim
• reasons 

Choose the word with the positive connotation.
gathering--mob

• gathering
• mob

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When a story is told using first-person pronouns such as I, we, me, us it is called

• first person point of view
• third person point of view
• mood
• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Metaphor

• Uses like or as.

• A direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as.

• Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated.

• A book that lists words in alphabetical order and gives their meanings, pronunciations, and etc.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is the resolution of a story?

• The action after the climax and begins moving the story toward its resolution.

• The main or central idea of a story, poem, novel, or play.

• The central or main character in a story, play, or novel. Also known as a hero.

• Part of the plot that shows the final outcome of the conflict. The story comes to a conclusion.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the rising action?

• Part of the plot that shows the final outcome of the conflict.

• the build-up of the conflict or action moving toward the climax.

• Sequence of events in a story.

• The main idea of a text.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The protagonist is...

• The central or main character in a story, play, or novel. Also known as a hero.

• Narrator is a character in the story and uses first person pronouns such as I, me, myself, we, our, and us.

• The person whose telling the story.

• The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is tone?

• a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject

• words or phrases that connect ideas, details, or events in writing

• stories, traditions, sayings, and customs of a culture or a society

  
  

  a temporary state of mind or feeling

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4