7th Grade Language Arts Midterm Review - Part 2

Question 1

Word that describes or modifies a verb or action.

Accepted Answer

ADVERB

Question 2

Word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Accepted Answer

ADJECTIVE

Question 3

Word part that appears at the beginning of a word or root.

Accepted Answer

PREFIX

Question 4

The most important idea about a topic a writer conveys

Accepted Answer

CENTRAL IDEA

Question 5

The main unit of a poem.

Accepted Answer

LINE

Question 6

How words are arranged on the page in a poem

Accepted Answer

FORM

Question 7

Who the author is directing the writing towards.

Accepted Answer

AUDIENCE

Question 8

Gives human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.

Accepted Answer

PERSONIFICATION

Question 9

Repetition of sounds at the end of words.

Accepted Answer

RHYME

Question 10

Obvious exaggeration. A figure of speech not intended to be taken literally

Accepted Answer

HYPERBOLE

Question 11

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. (She sells seashells by the seashore)

Accepted Answer

ALLITERATION

Question 12

Instructions for how the drama is to be performed in front of an audience, often in parenthesis

Accepted Answer

Stage Directions

Question 13

A pattern of end rhyme designated by letters of the alphabet.

Accepted Answer

RHYME SCHEME

Question 14

A speech given by a character alone on stage, for the benefit of the audience.

Accepted Answer

SOLILOQUY

Question 15

Words with similar meanings.

Accepted Answer

SYNONYMS

Question 16

Person, place, or object that stands for something beyond and greater than itself.

Accepted Answer

SYMBOL

Question 17

A pair of lines that rhyme in a poem

Accepted Answer

COUPLET

Question 18

Ideas and feelings associated with a word.

Accepted Answer

CONNOTATION

Question 19

A word part that came to English from an older language

Accepted Answer

ROOT

Question 20

Words that echo a sound from nature. (e.g., ring, meow, tinkle, buzz).

Accepted Answer

ONOMATOPOEIA

Question 21

Statement of belief or feeling

Accepted Answer

OPINION

Question 22

Comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

Accepted Answer

SIMILE

Question 23

A form of literature meant to be performed by actors in front of an audience

Accepted Answer

Drama

Question 24

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of a poem.

Accepted Answer

METER

Question 25

A group of lines in a poem

Accepted Answer

STANZA

7th Grade Language Arts Midterm Review - Part 2

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7th Grade Language Arts Midterm Review - Part 2

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