7th grade final exam review: vocabulary

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

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

the overall emotional quality of a work

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

a kind of pictorial representation

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

poetic techniques used for effect

a speech or written expression of thoughts by a character

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

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

accurate and careful about details

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

a humorous imitation of a literary work

a secondary plot that occurs along with a main plot

to respond or perform on the spur of the moment

the perspective from which a story is told

the feeling created by a literary work or passage

a struggle between opposing forces

a consistent pattern of end rhyme throughout a poem

reading aloud a literary text with expression

change or alter something

the ordinary form of written language, using sentences and paragraphs

the repetition of sounds at the ends of words

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

the time and the place in which a narrative occurs

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

the repetition of similar vowel sounds in accented syllables

an account of someone’s life written by that person

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

characterized by a concern for the actual or real

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

the voice or character speaking or narrating a story

to make something less important

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 specific character views a situation or other characters

conversation between characters

appointed to act or speak for someone

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