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Vocabulary
Vocbab words for 7th grade
Question | Answer |
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Character | the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. |
Setting | the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. |
Plot | the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. |
Theme | the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. |
Static Character | A static character, in this vocabulary, is one that does not undergo important change in the course of the story, remaining essentially the same at the end as he or she was at the beginning. |
Dynamic Character | a literary or dynamic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude |
Symbol | a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g., the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation |
First person point of view | The point of view in which a person is speaking about themselves. EX: I was playing my video game when he stated yelling at me. |
External Conflict | struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot |
Internal Conflict | psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plot's suspense |
Context Clues | Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word |
Inference | a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. |