Grade 7: Weeks 16 - 20 Review Test

Two opposites are put together for a special effect

Reference to a well-known person, place, or thing

Shorter than a novel, usually can be read in one sitting, has one or two characters and one plotline

Book length fiction

a person or animal in the story

the feeling a reader gets from the story

The whole impact of a piece of writing on a reader

Details particular to a certain region

Stories that use the familiar spoken language

the attitude or feelings of the author of a story

The angle from which the story is told

The villain

Fiction set in real time and place in history

the hero

A short story that explains a belief or moral principle

Humorous writing that makes fun of people's mistakes

A character in a story that provides a contrast to the main character

the problem of the store

The lesson a story teaches

A story that tries to explain a belief about nature or religion often using gods and goddesses

The message about life or human nature in a story

A humorous, exaggerated story about a real person

Fictional story from the author's imagination

Short nonfiction to state an opinion or to share information

When you expect one thing to happen and the opposite occurs

Informal, spoken language

Imaginative verse that uses concise, colorful language that follows a rhythm and often rhymes

A story about a person's life , not the author

talking between characters in the story

When a writer interrupts a story to go back and explain an earlier event

Exaggeration for a special effect

place and time in a story

A comparison NOT using "like" or "as"

writing that shows how life really is

A short story that uses animals and states a moral at the end

A story about the author's life

When a physical object represents an idea

A short story to make a point

Literature often set in the future that explores possible developments in technology or science

Plays meant to be performed in front of an audience

Hints or clues to suggest what will happen next

A story or play in which the characters represent ideas about life

Writing that shows life as you want it to be

Technical language used by a particular group of people

Literature in which the hero is destroyed by a flaw in his/her character

Giving nonhuman objects human characteristics

A story passed down orally that has characters rewarded or punished, depending on how good or how bad they are

The person or character telling the story

A comparison using "like" or "as"