7th grade final exam review: vocabulary

a consistent pattern of end rhyme throughout a poem

a humorous imitation of a literary work

the overall emotional quality of a work

a secondary plot that occurs along with a main plot

change or alter something

conversation between characters

a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

an interruption of the events in the plot of a story to relate events that occurred in the past

the perspective from which a story is told

the repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds

appointed to act or speak for someone

the feeling created by a literary work or passage

the way a specific character views a situation or other characters

the arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence

to respond or perform on the spur of the moment

descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together

the way a literary work is organized; the arrangement of the parts in a literary work

a speech or written expression of thoughts by a character

clues or hints signaling events that will occur later in the plot

to explain a writer’s or artist’s representation of the meaning of a story or idea

the repetition of sounds at the ends of words

an account of someone’s life written by that person

characterized by a concern for the actual or real

characterized by an appeal to what is heroic, adventurous, remote, mysterious, or idealized

a unit of poetry, such as a line or a stanza

a kind of pictorial representation

a recurring element, image, or idea in a work of literature

combines a bibliography with a summary and/or evaluation of each source

the time and the place in which a narrative occurs

to make something less important

instructions an author places in a script to tell the actors how to perform a scene

reading aloud a literary text with expression

a struggle between opposing forces

the repetition of similar vowel sounds in accented syllables

poetic techniques used for effect

the voice or character speaking or narrating a story

accurate and careful about details

the ordinary form of written language, using sentences and paragraphs