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7th grade - LA
EOG Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A book which tells what a word means, how it is spelled, part of speech, and origin | Dictionary |
| A dictionary of just synanyms and antonyms | Thesaurus |
| At the front of a book which says what the book contains | Table of Contents |
| A mini dictionary, which tells just the definition, at the back of the book | Glossary |
| List of words and page numbers at the back of the book | Index |
| A book that shows maps | Atlas |
| A book of facts | Almanac |
| At the library, where you find a card of either the subject, author, or title and where to find the book | Card Catalog |
| The reason the author wrote something | Author's purpose |
| Written to tell you something | Inform |
| Written so you read it for fun | Entertain |
| It is written to try to get the reader to change opinion on a certain subject | Persuade |
| Biography and/or family history | Narrative |
| A true story | Nonfiction |
| A true story written by the person it is about | Autobiography |
| The true story of a person's life, told by another person | Biography |
| A day to day record of a person's life, thoughts, or feelings | Diary |
| A short, nonfiction work that expresses a writer's thoughts about a single subject | Essay |
| A prose created from the imagination | Fiction |
| A prose narrative of shorter length than a novel | Short Story |
| A work of fiction shorter than a novel but longer than a short story | Novella |
| A long work of prose fiction | Novel |
| Imaginative literature based on scientific principals, discoveries, or laws | Science fiction |
| Very unrealistic or imaginative story | Fantasy |
| A story passed by word of mouth from generation to generation | Folk tales |
| Traditional or composed song typically made up of stanzas | Folk songs |
| A story told to communicate a moral | Parables |
| A brief story that frequently includes animal characters and a moral | Fables |
| A story from the past, often based on real events or characters | Legends |
| Explains objects or events in the natural world, usually explained to be caused by a god | Myths |
| A person or animal who takes part in the action of literary work | Character |
| One who plays an important role in a literary work | Major Character |
| Not a main character, but still has a role | Minor Character |
| Creating or describing a character | Characterization |
| Series of events related to a central conflict, or struggle | Plot |
| A struggle between two people or things | Conflict |
| Struggle that takes place in the character and something outside the character | External conflict |
| Struggle that takes place inside the mind of the character | Internal conflict |
| In a work of fiction or other work, it is the time and place at which it happens | Setting |
| The central idea of a work | Theme |
| The feeling or emotions the writer creates in a literary work | Mood |
| Vantage point from which a story is told | Point of view |
| Language that creates a concrete representation of an object or experience | Image |
| Images in a poem or passage | Imagery |
| Writing or speech meant to be understood imaginatively | Figure of speech |
| Figure of speech where one thing is written as something else | Metaphor |
| Comparison using like or as | Simile |
| Giving nonhuman things human characteristics | Personification |
| Repetition of sounds at end of words | Rhyme |
| Repetition of vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonent sounds | Assonance |
| Repetition of consonent sounds at beginnings of syllables | Alliteration |
| Use of words or phrases like meow, beep, that sound like what they name | Onomatopoeia |
| Saying things over and over to get it stuck in a reader's head | Repetition |
| A thing that stands for or represents both itself and something else | Symbol |
| Verse that tells a story | Narrative poem |
| Highly musical verse that expresses emotions of a speaker and does not tell a story | Lyric poem |
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