7th Grade STAAR Vocab Review - Collier

Details that help to explain or support the central, or main idea are called ____.

• supporting details

• stanza

• alliteration

• 3rd person point of view (narrator)

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

A little story or small piece of information added to an argumentative text to help prove a point is called an _____.

• climax

• anecdote

• simile

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4

To tell, in your own words, what a passage is about including only the central idea and most important supporting details. Does not include opinions or judgements.

• theme

• summarize

• idiom

• supporting details

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

What you know + what the author writes in the text is called an _____.

• conflict

• simile

• falling action

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Language that is used by writers to create an image in their reader's mind is called____

• author's purpose

• figurative language

• resolution

• effect

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Comparisons that use "like" or "as" are called _____.

• similes

• anecdotes

• figurative language

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

When you compare two things or ideas without using the words "like" or "as" it is called a ______.

• point of view

• rising action

• supporting details

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Repetition of a single consonant letter in the alphabet (as in "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers.") or a combination of letters

• compare

• inference

• effect

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Sound words that help to describe the objects are called ______.

• onomatopoeia

• 1st person point of view (narrator)

• rising action

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Giving objects or animals human characteristics is called __________.

• effect

• personification

• compare

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3