Seventh Grade
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Literary Elements
Miscellaneous
100
A person who is outgoing, expressive and likes to interact with others.
What is an extrovert?
100
When something is inborn, not learned it is...
What is an innate?
100
A person who is quite overweight might be described as this
What is obese?
100
A phrase which has a totally different meaning from its literal meaning, such as "she caught his eye".
What is an idiom?
100
In Greek Mythology, Pandora led all the vices of the world out of the box except for...
What is hope?
200
Two words that contradict each other
What is an oxymoron
200
To pamper and treat with great protection and care is...
What is coddle?
200
To be on time is called...
What is punctual?
200
This is the perspective from which the story is told
What is point of view?
200
Fresno, California 1st day of school
What is setting?
300
This is a type of reading created to explain natural phenomena prior to scientific explanations.
What is a myth
300
Something that starts and stops for a period of time is called an ...
What is interval?
300
To spread out is to...
What is diffuse ?
300
Series of events that take you through a story
What is plot?
300
What is a universal theme in literature?
Love, greed, power and good VS evil?
400
The last sentence in the introductory paragraph of an introduction is called...
The thesis
400
To be pleasant and nice to someone is to be...
What is cordial?
400
A strong belief about something
What is conviction?
400
These are the personalities, actions, thoughts, and characteristics that characters are made of.
What are character traits?
400
When a reader is expecting one outcome to occur and another does, it is considered.... or The difference between expectation and reality?
What is irony?
500
When Gary Soto (the author) writes Seventh Grade, what does he mean near the end of the story when he describes Victor as having rose-bushes of shame on his face.
What is he is blushing
500
In a shy or embarrassed way
What is sheepishly?
500
To have fierceness, wild force
What is ferocity?
500
The turning point of a story
What is the climax?
500
If the story is told in 3rd person, who is telling the story?
What is a narrator?