7th grade words to know

the original person or place from which information comes from

• primary source

• secondary source

• inference

• context clues

the tendency to favor one side too much; prejudice

• bandwagon

• motive

• bias

• plot

a smooth, easy flow of words in reading

• idiom

• paraphrase

• comprehension

• fluency

the reason an author writes a text

• author's viewpoint

• author's purpose

• drama

• convey

the person who wrote the play/drama

• poet

• author

• playwright

• director

to join what appears to be the winning side or successful movement

• bias

• bandwagon

• motive

• symbolism

the words directly before or after the word you are trying to define

• main idea

• fluency

• context clues

• paraphrase

prediction based on events from the reading

• context clues

• convey

• inference

• motive

a break in the series of events to introduce some earlier event of a scene

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• convey

• motive

to say the opposite; to disagree

• convey

• bias

• bandwagon

• contradict