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Unit 4 Test Review
Grade 7 unit 4 review
Term | Definition |
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Optimistic | Hopeful about the future (looking on the bright side of things) |
Pessimistic | Seeing the worst in situations or believing the worst will happen |
Appeal to Reason | Uses fact, evidence, and logic to persuade |
Appeal to Authority | Refers to established experts, historical figures, and recognized institutions to persuade |
Appeal to Emotion | Uses sensations, biases, images, and other impressions to persuade by arousing the feelings of the audience |
imagery | Images - words and phrases that appeal to on or more of the five senses |
Verbal Irony | A contrast between what a character says, and what he or she actually means |
Situational Irony | A contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually happens |
Dramatic Irony | A contrast between what the reader knows and what at least on of the characters know |
Lyric Poetry | Expresses a personal insight, a feeling, an observation, or a thought in a first-person voice. |
Suffix -ness | The condition or quality of being (happiness, queasiness) |
Prefix- uni | Having or consisting of one |
Root - sequ- | To follow |
Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject |
Connotation | The feelings that words evoke |
Theme | Insight about life that a text suggests (Message or lesson) |