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ELA
7th grade midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| noun | person, place, thing, idea |
| pronoun | in place of a noun (he/she/it/they) |
| adjective | modifies a noun or pronoun |
| verb | action or state of being (helps, tells, shows) |
| adverb | modifies verb, adjective, adverb |
| conjunction | joins words or group of words together |
| preposition | shows the relationship of noun or pronoun to another word |
| interjection | express emotion |
| Essay structure | intro, hook, background info, thesis, body paragraphs, topic sentence, conclusion, clincher (closing statement) |
| ordeal | a severe trial or experience |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| console | to alleviate the grief, sense of loss, or trouble of |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| dormant | temporarily devoid of external activity |
| meager | lacking desirable qualities |
| morose | having a sullen and gloomy |
| elapse | pass, go by |
| peevishly | marked by ill temper |
| insubordinate | disobedient to authority |
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| benevolence | an act of kindness |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| plot | sequence of events that shape a story |
| character | a person or animal in a literary work involved in the conflict of a story |
| theme | the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work |
| setting | location and time frame of a story |
| alliteration | same letter or sound at the beginning of connected words |
| hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not to be taken literally |
| idiom | a group of words used not necessarily what they mean (ex. raining cats and dogs) |
| imagery | visually descriptive language (ex. the lake looked as smooth as glass) |
| metaphor | a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness (ex drowning in money) |
| onomatopoeia | words that are sounds |
| personification | nonhuman given human characteristics |
| simile | comparing one thing to another (ex she was as still as a statue) |
| First person point of view | I, Me, My |
| Second person point of view | You, Your |
| Third person point of view | Bob, Larry, She/Her, He/Him, It/They |
| limited point of view | means the narrator is not "all knowing" and limited in their knowledge of other characters (ex. SpongeBob is limited) |
| Omniscient | all knowing (ex. God is all knowing) |
| Style | describes the ways the author uses words |
| Tone | attitude the narrator takes toward a subject |
| Mood | emotional response the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through the story |
| Allusion | author references a well-known person or place in the text |
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blcca
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