Worksheets7th grade ELA Vocabulary Review
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 1hrs 16mins
What is tone?
a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject
words or phrases that connect ideas, details, or events in writing
stories, traditions, sayings, and customs of a culture or a society
a temporary state of mind or feeling
What is the exposition?
Shows how the characters try to solve the story's main conflict. Events that lead up to the climax.
The turning point; the most intense moment in a story. It usually involves the main character realizing how the conflict can be fixed.
Beginning of story that introduces the characters, setting, and conflict.
End of the story.
What is the climax of a story?
The turning point; the most intense moment in a story. It usually involves the main character realizing how the conflict can be fixed.
Beginning of story that introduces the characters, setting, and conflict.
A struggle or clash between opposing forces that lies at the center of a plot in a story. Also known as the problem in a story.
Part of the plot that shows the final outcome of the conflict. The story comes to a conclusion.
What is the resolution of a story?
The action after the climax and begins moving the story toward its resolution.
The main or central idea of a story, poem, novel, or play.
The central or main character in a story, play, or novel. Also known as a hero.
Part of the plot that shows the final outcome of the conflict. The story comes to a conclusion.
What is the falling action?
An idea or feeling suggested by a word. Either a positive, negative, or neutral feeling.
Writing that tries to convince a reader to think or act in a certain way.
The turning point; the most intense moment in a story. It usually involves the main character realizing how the conflict can be fixed.
The action after the climax and begins moving the story toward its resolution.
What is the rising action?
Part of the plot that shows the final outcome of the conflict.
the build-up of the conflict or action moving toward the climax.
Sequence of events in a story.
The main idea of a text.
The antagonist of a story is...
The central or main character in a story, play, or novel. Also known as a hero.
A person or force that opposes the protagonist, or central character.
The relationship of the narrator or storyteller to the story.
Narrator is a character in the story and uses first person pronouns such as I, me, myself, we, our, and us.
The protagonist is...
The central or main character in a story, play, or novel. Also known as a hero.
Narrator is a character in the story and uses first person pronouns such as I, me, myself, we, our, and us.
The person whose telling the story.
The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Stanzas
A direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as.
Comparison using like or as.
A book that lists words in alphabetical order and gives their meanings, pronunciations, and etc.
A group of lines in a poem set off by blank lines.
Simile
A direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as.
Comparison using like or as.
A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given human characteristics.
A phrase or expression whose meaning is different from what the words say literally.
Metaphor
Uses like or as.
A direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as.
Figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated.
A book that lists words in alphabetical order and gives their meanings, pronunciations, and etc.
The articles A, AN, and THE are always
verbs
adverbs
adjectives
prepositions
Referring to someone's house as a "shack" would have a __________ connotation.
positive
negative
gathering--mob
Denotation is a word's ____________.
Literal, dictionary definition
Emotional meaning
synonym
antonym
Indicate the purpose of this sentence.
If you spend a dollar every minute, it will take you about twenty centuries to spend a billion dollars.
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
Instruct
Indicate the purpose of this sentence.
People should not be allowed to have children until they take a parenting class.
Inform
Instruct
Entertain
Persuade
Indicate the purpose of this passage.
How to Make an Apple Mummy—Put an apple slice in a plastic cup. Mix 1⁄2 cup of baking soda and 1⁄2 cup of salt. Pour the mixture over the apple until the apple slice is completely covered. Store the apple slice away from light and moisture for one week.
Inform
Persuade
Instruct
Entertain
What is the point of view?
Ester smiled brightly at his back, shrugged casually, and kept voice smooth as she reassured, "I'm not going anywhere." to laugh as she saw his shoulders almost flinch.
1st Person
3rd Person Limited
3rd Person Omniscient
3rd Person Objective
What is the point of view?
How to grill by Steven Raichlen
Once you have your grill assembled, the next thing to decide is where to put it. A grill puts out a lot of heat, so you should position it several feet away from the side of the house or any plants or shrubbery. You'll have an easier time with a spot that is sheltered from the wind. When positioning a grill on a wooden deck, remember that sparks and live embers can fall from a charcoal grill.
first-person
third-omniscient
third-objective
second-person
What is the point of view?
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse, and she was feeling at ease. At noon time, Winnie Foster, whose family owned the Treegap wood, lost her patience at last and decided to think about running away.
first-person
second-person
third-limited
third-omniscient
What is the point of view?
Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
And we scrounged. Next to survival, scrounge was probably the most important word in our new vocabulary. We found a store that was throwing out water-damaged mattresses. Getting them home was a problem, since we had to make two trips, leaving Brad and Katie, armed with sticks to guard over the remained. I truly expected them to be challenged by some gang boss, but they said that the only person who came by was a scrawny little rat of a girl living alone. We let her have one of the mattresses.
First-person
second-person
third- limited
third-objective
Example:
He "passed away," instead of "He died".
You can infer that
Read the following poem.
"A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is a weathered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon [peaceful] sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
QUESTION: What mood do the details of the poem convey? (Look specifically at the three things the speaker compares her heart to.)
Sorrow
Happiness
Excitement
Nervousness
Which of these things is not related to the "theme" in a story?
how a character is feeling
a "life lesson" the main character learns
a big idea that people from any culture or any place can understand
the moral of the story
What is the theme?
The Summary of this passage is:
Three of these things are details. One is a central idea. Click on the central idea.
When school is out in the summer, I love to play outside.
I go swimming at my grandma's house.
My family always has a big barbecue on the Fourth of July and we watch the fireworks together.
Whenever I can, I go hiking in the mountains with my friends.
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
On Halloween night the first thing you need to do is put on your costume. Next get your mom or dad and go to your neighbor's house. Knock on the door. When they answer say trick or treat and hold out your bag for a piece of candy. Do this at every house on your street.
sequential
cause & effect
compare & contrast
problem & solution
