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Schurb literary term
7th grade literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| main idea | the most important idea expressed in a paragraph or text |
| theme | the idea about life revealed in a work of literature; ex. love, relationships, death, baseball |
| supporting details | facts, examples, and statements that help to support or get across the main idea |
| sequence | the order of events in the text |
| cause and effect | a person, thing, or reason that makes something happen an dthe results that are produced |
| context clues | hints that you can find in the selection to help you figure out the meaning of a word |
| inference | an educated guess or prediction about what is going to happen |
| autobiography | the story of a person's life, written or told by that person |
| biography | the story of a real person's life, written or told by another person |
| simile | compares two things using like or as |
| situational irony | a contradition between what is expected and what is expected or intended and what actually occurs |
| verbal irony | when someone says or writes one thing, but means another thing |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration, used for emphasis or effect |
| allusion | a reference to a person, place, event, character, or to a work of art or literature |
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kim.schurb
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