7th Grade - Reading Final

To "read between the lines" and understand the author's intention

Referring to an event outside of the story

A literary device that makes use of exaggeration, usually for humor

Using a series of words beginning with the same consonant

A character who changes during the course of a story or novel

Ordinary form of written langauge; anything not poetry, drama, or song

To take a large part of a text and restate in a few essential sentences

A form of literature which may be written in stanzas, verse, or in rhyme

A point of view where the narrator is all knowing

"Sound words" such as drip, band, swish

The lesson that is learned from the story or characters' decisions

The series of events of a short story or a novel

The main character in a literary work, usually a foce of "good"

A strategy where you read a text several times to understand meaning

The ideas, emotional meaning of a word, phrase, paragraph

The dictionary or literal meaning of a word, phrase, paragraph

The beginning of a story where we learn setting, characters, conflict

Clues given in a story to hint at events that will occur later

A brief work of fiction dealing with few characters and one central problem