Springboard Unit 3 Vocabulary-Grade 7

The overall attitude of a piece of writing is the ___________.

• tone

• meter

• mood

• drama

The rhyme scheme is a_________________.

• nursery rhyme

• cool way to write a poem

• consistent pattern of end rhyme throughout a poem

• pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

The word subordinate describes someone or something that is__________________.

• underwater

• less attractive than something else

• incorrect

• less important or lower than another

A recurring element image, or idea in a work of literature is a_________________.

• repetition

• motif

• waste of time

• picture

A sudden and vivid memory of an event in the past is called a_________________.

• flashback

• memory

• deja vu

• nightmare

A writer's distinctive use of language is their______________.

• interpretation

• attitude

• voice

• point of view

The overall emotional quality of a work, which is created by the author's language and tone and the subject matter is the__________________.

• feeling

• suspicion

• dramatization

• mood

A poem's meter refers to its_____________________.

• ability to rhyme

• pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• unit of measurement

• length

Foreshadowing is____________________________________.

• the use of shading when drawing a picture

• creating a dark and suspenseful mood

• the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

• the author's ability to create pictures in the reader's mind