7th Grade Language Arts Review

me, us, you, him, her, it, them

A ____________ is a word that expresses an action or a state of being.

descriptions of how something looks, sounds, feels, tastes, or smells

What is the personal pronoun: When Margot talked about the sun, she came to life.

Fiction texts often present a message about life called:

consists of the ideas and feelings that the word brings to mind

the use of words that imitate sounds

More is to increasing as less is to decreasing

We planned a picnic, but it rained.

joins the subject of a sentence with a word or phrase that describes or renames the subejct

Identify the word that does not belong:

An analogy shows the relationship between a pair of words or phrases

What prefix means: wrong, not

Which sentence contains an interjection?

historical period, physical location, season of the year, time of day, climate, weather

Life is a bowl of cherries.

Pick the adjective: We saw Kathy's play and it included fifty actors.

a figure of speech giving human characteristics to a nonhuman subject

Preposition: Among their people, hording was considered shameful.

Identify the word that does not belong:

To: inform, persuade, entertain, teach

plot

The highest point of tension in a story

What is an example of literary nonfiction?

The ______________ impact startled the driver.

A struggle between a character and an outside force

We have talked often.

Synonym for the word: dismal

The narrator is not a character in the story, but tells what each character thinks and feels.

He still loves Annabel Lee, even though she has died.

a noun or pronoun placed after another noun or pronoun to identify, rename, or explain it

tries to solve the conflict but faces obstacles that prevent an easy solution

Purpose for reading

restatements, examples, definitions, and contrasting details are all tools called:

I went to the store and found Becky in the baking aisle getting flour.

The ___________ of the story is the time and place of the action.

use a comma:

the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginnings of words

Translucent means:

Don't jump to conclusions about people.

What type of text is a writing that tells a story?

What caused them to be afraid?

Studying hard is a good strategy for passing a test.

conversation between two characters

What type of clause: When raindrops fall, it sounds like music.

The narrator is a character who participates in the story.

Irony: literary element that involves a contradiction or contrast of some kind

Carter discovered a buried staircase that led to a sealed tomb. Context clue for "sealed":

I browsed in the gift shop. What does the word "browsed" mean?

Recipes, directions, menus and applications are what form of nonfiction?

takes place within the mind of a character (struggles to make a decision/take action/overcome)

What is a theme called when it is expressed in many different cultures and time periods?

a writer's word choice and the way the writer puts those words together

I, we, you, he, she, it, they

a conclusion you draw about something that is not directly stated.

lines organized in units of meaning

Today I talk.

They made snowballs and threw them at a young ____________ windshield.

What root means: to hear

What are elements of nonfiction?

Identify the infinitive: Weasels like to eat ducklings.

My love is like a red, red rose.

making an intelligent judgment about what will happen next in a story based on text details

Which sentence is written correctly?

What is the verb: Kuo-Haya felt shy in front of the other boys.

Jennifer Johnson, Phoenix, Pizza Hut

Possessive Pronoun: a pronoun that shows possession or ownership

Identify the adverbs: I moved slowly, but I will get it finished later.

a brief statement that presents only the central ideas and most important details of a text.

expression with a meaning that is different from the meaning of the actual words (idiom)

Identify the subject and predicate: Civil rights laws caused many positive changes.

Which choice is not a form of fiction?

a long uninterrupted speech spoken by one character to another

Promote

Which word is an antonym of communal?

What suffix means: without

expository, persuasive, narrative, descriptive, reflective, humorous, analytical

What part of speech tells the name of a person, place of thing?

The words and phrases surrounding a word that can help you understand a word you do not know?

presents events in the order in which they happened