Georgia Milestones 7th Grade Literary Text Vocabulary Review

Question 1

definitive meaning of a word

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denotation

Question 2

The specific order of a series of events that form a story

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plot

Question 3

My father can lift two tons

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hyperbole

Question 4

The trees sighed in the afternoon breeze.

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personification

Question 5

open the door to your heart

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figurative

Question 6

captures main points but does not give every detail; doesn't include opinions

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objective summary

Question 7

The beautiful butterfly blew by the bay

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alliteration

Question 8

to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text

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inference

Question 9

open the door

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literal

Question 10

the problem in a literary text

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conflict

Question 11

the actual meaning of a word or phrase

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literal

Question 12

factual description of situations, occasions, or events that actually occurred in the past

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historical account

Question 13

the category of a text, such as fiction or nonfiction

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genre

Question 14

Life is a roller coaster.

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metaphor

Question 15

lesson or message in literary text

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theme

Question 16

the use of the same sound to start several words in a row

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alliteration

Question 17

imaginative description of situations or events that may or may not have actually happened

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fictional portrayal

Question 18

the way an author develops a character over the course of a passage

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characterization

Question 19

a quirky expression or saying that is specific to a language

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idiom

Question 20

When a writer describes an object as if it were a person

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personification

Question 21

exaggeration beyond belief

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hyperbole

Question 22

a direct comparison that states one thing is another

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metaphor

Question 23

a speech in a literary text/drama where characters express how they feel by talking to himself

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soliloquy

Question 24

where and when a story takes place

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setting

Question 25

it's raining cats and dogs

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idiom

Question 26

perspective from which a story is told

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point of view

Question 27

passages that are stories, dramas, or poems.

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literary

Question 28

She is as pretty as a picture.

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simile

Question 29

the solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict

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resolution

Question 30

idea or message is fully stated or revealed by the author.

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explicit

Question 31

comparison using like or as

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simile

Question 32

emotional meaning of a word

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connotation

Georgia Milestones 7th Grade Literary Text Vocabulary Review

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Georgia Milestones 7th Grade Literary Text Vocabulary Review

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