GA MILESTONES GRADE 7 EOG STUDY/RESOURCE GUIDE FOR LITERARY TEXT

To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

• genre

• plot

• inference

• simile

An idea or message that is fully stated or revealed by the writer.

• inference

• explicit

• figurative language

The lesson or message of a literary text.

• theme

• plot

• resolution

• point of view

The series of events that form a story in a specific order.

• theme

• resolution

• genre

• plot

The solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict.

• plot

• point of view

• resolution

• theme

NOT the actual meaning of a word or phrase.

• literal language

• genre

• figurative language

• plot

The actual meaning of a word or phrase.

• literal language

• plot

• figurative language

• theme

A type of figurative language that makes comparisons using linking words such as like, as, or than.

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

A type of figurative language that makes a comparison WITHOUT a linking word such as like or as.

• simile

• alliteration

• metaphor

The use of the same sound to start several words in a row.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole