7th Grade Language Arts Vocabulary

What is a narrator?

• the person who wrote the story

• the main character in a story

• person the author chooses to tell a story

• the protagonist in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is point of view in a literary text?

• perspective a writer chooses to tell a story from

• how the author feels about the subject that they are writing about

• the opinion of the main character on the theme of the story

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Dialogue is the exact words the characters are saying.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is the audience?

• The people who will be reading the piece of writing.

• The person who wrote the story.

• The characters in the story that are watching the story take place.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What is author's purpose?

• The author's opinion on their piece of writing.

• The writer’s intention for his or her piece.

• How to the audience feels about the author's writing.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Select the answer choice below that IS NOT a type of author's purpose.

• Persuade

• Entertain

• Explain

• Reason

• Inform

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What does it mean to paraphrase?

• to collaborate with another person to come up with an idea.

• to quote the work of another person by using quotation marks.

• to use someone else's words directly.

• to use someone else’s ideas and to express those ideas in your own words

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Figurative language is the use of words in a way that deviates from the conventional order and meaning in order to convey a complicated meaning

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What is personification?

• a comparison using like or as

• when a writer describes an object as if it were a person

• a direct comparison that states one thing is another

• an indirect reference to something

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is a simile?

• a comparison using like or as

• exaggeration beyond belief.

• quirky sayings and expressions specific to a language

• a word that imitates the natural sound of something

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D