7th Grade ELA EOG Review

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Information that reinforces the topic sentence or main idea of a paragraph.

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Supporting details

Front

A kind of literary or artistic work

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Genre

Front

A figure of speech comparing two things without using like or as

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Metaphor

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What the passage is mostly about?

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Main idea

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A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary work

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Theme

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A significantly shortened version of source material that captures main ideas in your own words

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Summarize

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A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize

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Allusion

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The reason the author has for writing, usually to inform, persuade, or express/entertain.

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Author's purpose

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A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')

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Simile

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Using words that imitate the sounds they make

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Onomatopoeia