7th Grade Language Arts Midterm Review - Part 2

Question 1

Statement of belief or feeling

Accepted Answer

OPINION

Question 2

The most important idea about a topic a writer conveys

Accepted Answer

CENTRAL IDEA

Question 3

Word that describes or modifies a verb or action.

Accepted Answer

ADVERB

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

SIMILE

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

SOLILOQUY

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

PERSONIFICATION

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

ALLITERATION

Question 8

Who the author is directing the writing towards.

Accepted Answer

AUDIENCE

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

Drama

Question 10

A word part that came to English from an older language

Accepted Answer

ROOT

Question 11

Repetition of sounds at the end of words.

Accepted Answer

RHYME

Question 12

The main unit of a poem.

Accepted Answer

LINE

Question 13

Ideas and feelings associated with a word.

Accepted Answer

CONNOTATION

Question 14

Words with similar meanings.

Accepted Answer

SYNONYMS

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

PREFIX

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Stage Directions

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

METER

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

ONOMATOPOEIA

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

SYMBOL

Question 20

How words are arranged on the page in a poem

Accepted Answer

FORM

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

RHYME SCHEME

Question 22

A group of lines in a poem

Accepted Answer

STANZA

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

HYPERBOLE

Question 24

Word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Accepted Answer

ADJECTIVE

Question 25

A pair of lines that rhyme in a poem

Accepted Answer

COUPLET

7th Grade Language Arts Midterm Review - Part 2

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7th Grade Language Arts Midterm Review - Part 2

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