ELA ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

7th Grade ELA ACADEMIC VOCABULARY

Terms to know in Language Arts

Poll

Which term do you feel like you have a pretty good understanding of?

• theme

• symbolism

• simile

• setting

• word choice

Poll

Which term do you feel like you need more help to understand?

• flashback

• influence

• summary

• infer

• tone

Multiple Choice

An object in a text represents something bigger about life

• summary

• suggest

• contrast

• symbolism

Multiple Choice

Comparing with "like" or " as"

• metaphor

• simile

• contrast

• i don't know

Multiple Choice

Where or when something takes place

• states

• setting

• South Carolina

• soup

Multiple Choice

THE most important idea about a topic

• moral

• lesson

• theme

• main idea

Multiple Choice

Why an author might choose a specific word or phrase

• central idea

• main idea

• word choice

• foreshadowing

Multiple Choice

A lesson, message, or moral of a text

• setting

• theme

• tone

• simile

Multiple Choice

To look at how something changes from one thing to another

• word choice

• contrast

• develop or development

• compare

Multiple Choice

goes back in time

• contribute

• main idea

• flashback

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

To give or provide

• flashback

• central idea

• contrast

• contribute

Multiple Choice

What is a summary?

• a retelling of the most important parts of what was read

• the feeling thew author gives you about a topic

• to express something directly

• to compare

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to be " influenced by" something

• to not listen to it

• to make someone think a certain way about a topic

• simile

• metaphor

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to" infer"?

• a retelling

• you guess about the setting

• the 3 big economic questions

• to draw a conclusion based on information that was provided in a text

Multiple Choice

What does it mean when someone "states" something?

• You have to guess what they mean

• to make someone think a certain way about a topic

• They express it directly

• we have 50 of them

Multiple Choice

What is the feeling an author has about a topic as it is expressed in a text?

• mood

• tone

• setting

• conclusion

Multiple Choice

The feeling the reader gets from a text. This may change many times throughout a text...

• tone

• mood

• setting

• theme