Poetry
Literary Genre
Random Terms
7th Grade Knowledge
Plot
100

Comparing two unlike things saying one is the other. Example: The ducks marched in a soldier's parade.

What is metaphor?


100

A story written to be acted out in front of an audience


What is a play or drama?


100

The vantage point from which a story is told...can be 1st, 3rd limited, 3rd objective, or omniscient


What is point of view. Extra points: define all four types of point of views.


100

The time and place where a story takes place.


What is the setting?

100

The "A Ha" moment in the story.


What is the climax?

200

Comparing two unlike objects saying one thing is like the other. Example: You smell like a pig!


What is simile?


200

Stories with scientific elements that are not true...yet?


What is science fiction?


200

The story of a person's life written by another person


What is biography.


200

Using text evidence and background knowledge to come to a conclusion about a passage.

What is an inference?

200

The beginning, it tells where, when and how the story will take place.


What is the introduction/exposition?

300

Poetry without regular meter or rhyme, also a style of Rappin'


What is free verse?



300

Fictional literature not over 20 pages long and it's not tall


What is a short story?



300

What other characters say about them and what the author says about the character.


What are character traits.



300

The use of words to appeal to the five senses: see, smell, taste, touch, hear.


What is imagery?

300

This is before the Climax and after the Introduction on a plot diagram.


What is Rising Action.



400

The pattern of rhyming at the end of lines

What is rhyme scheme?

400

A genre of text that gives you facts, explanations, a timeline of events, or step by step processes.

What is informational text?

400

Giving animals or non-human things person like characteristics.


What is personification.



400

The use of words that echo their sense: crash, bang, boom


What is onomatopoeia?


400

This is the after the Conflict on a plot diagram.  I am the End


What is Resolution.



500

Poetry that is humorous and often rude, and only has 5 lines.

What is a limerick?

500

A genre of text that wants the reader to do or believe something 

What is argumentative text?
500

The "take away" message, what YOU get from the story


What is theme?



500

When the author stops the action of a story to tell what has happened in the past, also a ride at 6 Flags


What is flashback?



500

The portion of the story where the problems are being solved

What is the falling action?

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