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
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective
First Person
100
In a TEXACS paragraph, what do the letters stand for?
topic sentence
explanation
example
analysis
connection
summary
100
In the poem "Casey at the Bat," what is the theme (not the topic)?
Pride goes before a fall.
Too much pride can cause you to fail.
100
What is connotation?
What is "the mood or nuance of a word"
All the associations a word represents (unlike denotation)
200
The problem of the story is called...
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
What do we call details appeal to the five senses—sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell—to create a vivid impression for the reader?
Imagery
200
What are three things everyone should bring to every English class?
a pencil
a notebook
a book for silent reading
200
What is tone?
how the author feels about the topic that he writing about; the author's attitude
300
What term do we use to show how things are similar and how they are different?
Compare and contrast
300
When the narrator uses "She, He, They" it is written in this perspective
Third Person
300
Identify the point of view used in this sentence:
"You should always check both ways before crossing the street."
Second-person point of view
300
This is a style of language that is appropriate to a particular time, place, relationship, interaction, purpose.
What is "register."
300
What is mood?
What is "the emotional atmosphere the text creates in the reader"
How the reader feels when reading the text
400
What is the theme of a story?
Message or lesson of story
400
In The Lorax, what is the main type of conflict? Person vs. what ?
What is nature?
400
Where can you look in an informational text to find out what each chapter is about and the page the chapter starts?
What is a Table of Contents?
400
An informational text may have a small dictionary at the end of the text.
What is a glossary?
400
What type of rhyme does the word "today" represent?
An iamb
500
Which story did we read about time travel back to the time of the dinosaurs?
What is "A Sound of Thunder"?
500
What is at the top? The climax or the resolution?
Climax
500
Which poem did we read that tells the story of a doomed love?
What is "Annabelle Lee"?
500
Which figurative language term refers to words that imitate natural sounds, like "buzz," "crash," and "sizzle"?
Onomatopoeia
500
Peter Piper picked a pair of perfectly pickled peppers is an example of what type of figurative language
Alliteration