7th Grade ELA 1
7th Grade ELA 2
7th Grade ELA 3
7th Grade ELA 4
7th Grade ELA 5
100
What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
100
An opposing point of view that you include in your writing to make your argument stronger.
What is a counterclaim?
100
What should an engaging introduction include?
A) A hook, background information, and a thesis statement
B) Random facts and a question
C) Only a thesis statement
D) A long, unrelated story
A) A hook, background information, and a thesis statement
100
What is the opening paragraph to your writing called?
The closing, the introduction, or the body?
Introduction
100
What is the theme of a story?
the lesson or moral of a story
200
The problem of the story
conflict
200
Which figurative language term is used when a statement is exaggerated for emphasis, like "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"?
Hyperbole
200
Which type of details appeal to the five senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell—to create a vivid image for the reader?
Sensory details
200
A group of words in a poem
What is a stanza?
200
What is text evidence?
Evidence you can pull directly from the passage to back you up
300
What does it mean to compare and contrast?
To tell how things are the same or different
300
Claim
your argument/ your thesis statement
300
The voice or character that tells the story
What is a narrator?
300
3 different types of text structure
What is chronological order, problem & solution, compare and contrast, descriptive, cause & effect?
300
Which part of an essay reminds the reader about the thesis and main points while leaving them with a final message?
The Conclusion
400
Reading in between the lines. What the author is trying to say without actually saying it..
What is an inference?
400
What a nonfiction text is mostly about?
Facts or real events
400
The author's attitude toward the subject/ story (how the author feels)
What is tone?
400
What are the verbs in this sentence:
She watched him play at the park.
watched and play
400
Grabs the readers attention in the introduction paragraph
What is a hook?
500
What are the five elements (parts) of an argumentative essay? Think of an outline
1) Introduction with a thesis at the end,
2) Body 1
3) Body 2
4) Counterclaim
5) Conclusion
500
What is at the top? The climax or the resolution?
Climax
500
How the reader feels as they're reading the story.
What is mood?
500
Which figurative language term refers to words that imitate natural sounds, like "buzz," "crash," and "sizzle"?
Onomatopoeia
500
What does RACES stand for?
What is Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain, Summarize.