7th Grade Academic Vocabulary

A reference to a well known person, place, event, book, or work of art, often used to help make a comparison.

• simile

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

• paraphrase

A statement that someone says to be true, especially when other people may not agree

• context

• text evidence

• summary

• claim

The parts of a story or text that help you understand what’s going on—like the setting, characters, and events around a certain part of the story.

• summary

• claim

• context

• text evidence

When a story stops what’s happening now to show something that happened in the past.

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• metaphor

• tone

A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

• dialogue

• allusion

• imagery

• context

The overall feeling or sensation created by the author's word choice, imagery, setting, and other literary devices.

• mood

• tone

• hyperbole

• personification

Particular words in literary text that create visual representation of ideas in the reader’s mind.

• summary

• text evidence

• context

• imagery

An author’s use of hints or clues to give a reader an idea of what may happen next.

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• metaphor

• simile

A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.

• simile

• personification

• allusion

• onomatopoeia

Giving credit to a source or original author of text evidence.

• point of view

• context

• citation

• verse