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7th grade English
7th grade academic vocab - english
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| analogy | a comparison between two things |
| argument | a position supported by evidence |
| bias | someone with an expierience to effect their choice in something |
| cause | a cause is something that makes something happen |
| effect | result of a cause |
| compare | when you look for similarities |
| contrast | when you look for differences |
| chronological order | the result of a cause |
| conclusion | a general summing up of text |
| connotation | a feeling that a word invokes |
| denotation | the strict dictionary definiton |
| context clues | hints that an author gives incase you don't know a word |
| fact | a statement that can be proved true |
| opinion | a personal belief or feeling on somehting |
| fallacious reasoning | false reasoning |
| generalization | a broad statement that covers several events |
| graphic features | design elements in text such as maps, graphs, etc. |
| images | descriptive writing words used to create mental images |
| inference | an educated guess, a conclusion that makes sense |
| instuctional manuals | a paper book that explains how to operate something or put something together |
| KWL chart | a chart with three sections: what I Know, what I Want to know, and what I Learned |
| main idea | the most important point in passage |
| newspapers | informational texts the present fact about current events |
| objective writing | a passage that sticks to the facts and doesn't show the writers feelings |
| outlining | use bullets to write the main details in a passage |
| predictions | guessing what will happen next based on what has already happened |
| propaganda | an organized attempt to influence a big crowd of people to believe a certain idea |
| purposes of texts | text is written for certain reasons, inform, persuade, entertain, or express feelings |
| reading rate | the speed at which you read a text |
| retelling | a reading strategy that helps you remember certain events from a story |
| signs | brief information texts usually off to the side in a textbook |
| sterotyping | saying that ALL people of a certain group are the same |
| subjective | writing that reveals a writer's personal opinion |
| summarizing | stating just the main ideas and shortening them into a few sentences |
| text structures | ways in which writers structure informational texts, cause and effect, chronological order & compare and contrast |
| textbooks | informational texts to help students learn |
| writer's perspective | the way a writer looks at things |
| alliteration | repetition of the same consonant sounds ( she sells sea shells by the sea shore ) |
| allusion | reference to a statement, person, place, event, history etc. |
| atmosphere | overall mood of a work of literature |
| autobiography | the story of a person written or told by the person |
| biography | the story of a person written or told by a different person |
| character | a person or animal who takes part in the action in a story |
| conflict | a struggle between characters in a story |
| description | more detailed words to make the reader feel what is going on |
| dialect | a way of speaking, a language |
| dialogue | a conversation between two people |
| drama | a story written to be acted in front of an audience, a play |
| essay | a short piece of writing that is about a single subject |
| fable | a brief story that teaches a moral |
| ficiton | piece of writing that is made up and not true |
| figure of speech | a word or phrase that describes something but is not literally true |
| flashback | something that happens to make you think of an event that happened in the past |
| folk tale | a story with no known author that was passed on through generations through word of mouth |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues to suggest event that will happen later in a story plot |
| free verse | poetry with no regular rhyme or scheme |
| imagery | language that appeals to the senses |
| irony | a contrast between expectation and reality |
| metamorphosis | a change from one form to another |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing. |
| mood | a emotion created by a work of literature |
| motivation | something that you want but can only get by doing somehting |
| myth | a story that explains some problem and typically involves gods |
| nonfiction | a true story |
| novel | a fictional story that is most likely over one hundred pages long |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense ( buzz ) |
| personification | where a nonhuman or nonliving thing has the quality of talking |
| plot | the series of related events that make up a story |
| setting | the time and place where most of the events take place in a story |
| short story | a fictional narrative that is about twenty pages long |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things ( as busy as a bee ) |
| speaker | the voice talking in a poem |
| stanza | a line in a poem |
| suspense | the anxiety you feel about what will happen next |
| symbol | a person, place, thing. or event that has it's own meaning beyond itself |
| tall tale | an exaggerated tale that is very far-fetched |
| theme | the truth about life revealed in a book |
| tone | the attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, subject, or character |
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