7th ELA Vocabulary Review

How the narrator tells a story; it reflects how the narrator feels and thinks about the characters and events

The feeling or idea associated with a word from its context rather than the dictionary definition

Two or more words that have the same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings; for example bear, row

Words and concepts specific to a subject matter

Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words, sometimes used by poets to add a song-like quality

A story that is organized into lines and stanzas, but has no rhyme or meter. It may use interior monologues

A type of poem with fourteen lines, a pattern that has end rhymes and uses pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables

A type of poem that expresses the speaker's thoughts or feelings and has a musical quality that does not always rhyme.

the attitude an author has or the position the author takes about a text's subject. It may show some bias.

A style of speech or narration that shows the way characters speak in a specific place or during a specific time.

The overall message about life in a text. It is usually not stated in the text.

A text feature that shows information in an organized way. It usually contains numbers arranged in rows and columns.

to clear up confusion while reading

Words that sound the same when pronounced, but have different meanings and often different spellings

a text feature that often summarizes information and compares related details from the text in graphic form

Words in a sentence surrounding an unfamiliar word that help the reader figure out the word's meaning.

The guiding question readers are expected to answer after reading a set of related texts.

an informational text that tells the story of a person's life, but is told by someone else

Diagrams that show the steps in a process, often containing captions

words that have opposite meanings; for example happy/sad

A text feature that provides simple visual explanation of detailed factual information.

An expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

the people or animals in a story. They are whom the story is about.

The combination of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem used to create the regular pattern of sounds

The use of vivid or exact words to show nuances in meanings when writing; for example, writing furious instead of upset

A poem that tells a story in verse form and contains characters, setting and plot events.

A word's straightforward dictionary meaning.

The various patterns of ideas that are used to organize a text (e.g., cause-effect, comparison-contrast, story grammar).

Text features that provide more information related to the topic of a text, often from a different perspective

A text structure that tells how two or more things, people, places, or ideas are alike and different.

a text structure exploring the reason something happened and the result

Words that show when events happen and in what sequence, such as first, next, then, and finally.

Clues or hints an author gives to upcoming plot events

Describe the setting and characters' actions in a play and are not spoken by the actors.

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words near each other in a text; for example, Bob's big balloons

Traditional sayings about common experiences that are often repeated; for example, a penny saved is a penny earned.

A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocab, & elements of text

The use of words, phrases, symbols, or ideas to paint a picture in the reader's mind. includes simile, metaphor, etc

Has a narrator that is not one of the characters in the story. Narrator lets the reader know what the characters think.

The ending to a piece of text.