7th Grade ELA EOG Review

Information that reinforces the topic sentence or main idea of a paragraph.

• Onomatopoeia

• Summarize

• Supporting details

• Point of View (POV)

A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize

• Allusion

• Simile

• Summarize

• Metaphor

What is a stanza?

• A paragraph in a poem.

• The title of a poem.

• The end of a poem.

• Where you stand and read a poem aloud.

"Purple as tulips in May, mauve

into lush velvet, purple

as the stain blackberries leave

on the lips, on the hands,

the purple of ripe grapes

sunlit and warm as flesh."

This poem uses the following type of figurative language:

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• imagery

What is the main idea of the passage below?

Dolphins are very smart animals.  They even have their own language.   They talk to each other with clicks, whistles, and grunts.  Scientists have been studying this dolphin language.  They hope that in the future, people and dolphins will be able to talk to each other.

• Dolphins talk to people.

• Dolphins are intelligent animals.

• Dolphins swim differently than fish.

• Scientists are studying animal languages.

What is the author's purpose for writing a passage like the following?

An article in a magazine comparing and contrasting waste management in New York City and Mexico City.

• to inform

• to entertain

• to persuade

• to describe

What is the THEME of the narrative below?

Betsy’s mom had gotten her a new outfit for school pictures. Betsy grimaced the first time she saw it. It was hideous. She looked like a kindergartner. However, she also knew that money was tight at home and her mom was most likely very excited about the surprise purchase for her daughter.

Betsy knew what she had to do. The morning of school pictures, she got up and got dressed. Her mom smiled widely as she walked out of her bedroom waring the new outfit. Her mom fixed her hair and Betsy left for school.

When she arrived at the school building, classmates stared at her. A few snickered. Some made sarcastic comments about her going into the Kindergarten building. Betsy just kept thinking of her Mom’s huge, proud smile earlier that morning.

When she saw her best friend, Becca, she explained the situation. “Well, I am proud of you, Betsy. What you did today takes a lot of guts.”

• Wear the clothes our parents choose for school pictures.

• Stand by your friends no matter what.

• It often takes strength to do what is right.

• Stand up for yourself.

How can you know that something is written in first-person point of view?

• Pronouns like "he, she, it, them" are used.

• The author is addressing the reader.

• The narrator is not in the story.

• Pronouns like "I, my, we" are used.

Giving human characteristics to something that is not human

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

A figure of speech comparing two things without using like or as

• Allusion

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Summarize