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Mid-term Review
7th Grade Mid-Term Language Arts Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a refrain? | A phrase or line repeated throughout a poem |
| What was the refrain in the poem "Columbus"? | Sail on, Sail on and on |
| What metaphor does the author use in "Old Sly Eye" to describe the flash from Alben's musket? | A flaming tongue |
| What is Mother's main motivation for buying her daughter a suit in the excerpt from Preacher's Kids? | pride |
| Why did Mother start acting tense and ill-tempered in the Preacher's Kids? | her conscience was convicting her of deceit |
| What did the Robertsons and Robin use to write letters instead of paper? | A piece of the sail |
| What is Glenn Cunningham's attitude toward his injury in "Run, Boy, Run!"? | He responded to tragedy by working to overcome it |
| What symbol(s) does Helen Keller use to describe her own state before Annie Sullivan arrives? | the broken doll |
| What is the genre of "The Friend Inside"? | historical fiction |
| In "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", which characters exhibit courage? | the mongoose and The man or Darzee's wife |
| What fable reflects the moral "You are judged by the company you keep"? | The stork is caught with birds who were stealing food |
| In "The Rainy Day", what does Longfellow mean by "into each life some rain must fall"? | Every life has to have some sadness |
| What is the king searching for in "A Grain as Big as a Hen's Egg"? | someone to explain where the grain of corn came from |
| In "Whether by Life or by Death", how did John and Betty Stam react when the Communists came to their house? | They received them curiously |
| What is the attitude of the miller in "The Windmill"? | ungrateful |
| What did the message that Henry Junes received at the end of "The Two Strangers" say? | try Tennessee |
| In "Gold-Mounted Guns", where did Will find the old man's money? | Inside a tea canister on a mantel |
| suspense | Reader anxiety resulting from the author's withholding of plot details |
| genre | a type or category of literature |
| theme | a recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature |
| meter | the regular arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem |
| figures of speech/figurative language | an artful deviation from the usual way of saying things |
| rhyme | In two or more words, the repetition of the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel |
| free verse | has no rhyme scheme or definite meter |
| understatement | the representation of something as less important than it truly is |
| hyperbole | a type of obvious overstatement used by writers to make a point |
| personification | giving human characteristics to something that is not human |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | an expression of one thing in terms of another |
| motivation | the reason that a character behaves as he or she does |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like what they mean (e.g. hiss, buzz) |
| symbol | a person, place, thing, or idea that means something in addition to itself |
| fiction | a work that contains events invented by the author |
| nonfiction | Prose that tells of real people and events |
| first person | the point of view in which the narrator, as one of the characters, refers to himself as "I" throughout the piece |
| third person | the point of view in which the narrator refers to the characters as he, she, they or it |
| plot twist | a plot development that violates the reader's expectations |
| foreshadowing | hinting at events which will occur later within a story |
| flashback | a reference to events that occurred before the action of the main story |
| irony | the use of language to convey meaning other than what is stated |
| protagonist | the main character in a story - sometimes known as the hero or heroine |
| antagonist | the character who struggles against the protagonist |
| Who said "I wish the war was over now."? | Martin Emery |
| Who said "scarred streak from Kansas"? | Glenn Cunningham |
| Who said "You don't mind a lot of black widow spiders crawling all over you, do you?" | Pat McManus |
| Who said "felt a misty consciousness of something forgotten"? | Helen Keller |
| Who said "When he described the dog, I was sure it was his."? | Mr. Junes |
| Who said "denies nothing, evades nothing? | Edith Cavel |
| exposition | the part of the story's plot that introduces the reader to the situation and setting |
| inciting incident | the incident that sets the events of the plot in motion |
| climax | the point at which the plot reaches the moment of highest emotional intensity |
| crisis | the major turning point for the main character; the point at which something happens that affects the outcome of the story and determines the future of the main character. |
| resolution | the final outcome of a story and the last element of the plot |
| Dan Scott | Royo the Singer |
| Sam Gribley | King's Provider |
| Rex | Snapshot of a Dog |
| Crotalus | The life and Death of a Western Gladiator |
| Alben Hastings | Old Sly Eye |
| Dougal Robertson | Castaways - man vs. nature |
| Mr. Beim | received help and favor from stranger |
| Neosho | let Shunuka take place in the ceremonial dance |
| Johnsy | watched for the last ivy leaf to fall |
| Pete Stallings | hands the ball to Billy Foxx |
| Snowden | sold veggies - kind to Martin |
| Kass | She requested that her older sister be given the poetry award |
| In his essay "Twas a Dark and Dreary Night," McManus primarily makes his pint by using _____________, | humor |
| In McManus's essay "Twas a Dark and Dreary Night", what is the narrator's basic character flaw? | pride |
| The major theme of "Columbus" is that ________________________. | One should not quit but should persevere |
| In Longstreth's essay "The Friend Inside," Jim's reaction to the stranger's proposal that he betray the president exemplified his _________________. | lack of self-control |
| The genre of "The Friend Inside" is _________________. | historical fiction |
| When Rikki-tikki attacke dthe sleeping Nag, he locked his teeth and held on while the cobra battered him around, thus showing the mongoose's __________________. | persistance |
| In the story "The Friend Inside," what event had happened earlier that would account for Jim's nightmare that he had lost a confidential dispatch from the president? | Leaving his hat behind |
| The suspicious-looking stanger who approached Jim in front of Ford's Theater in "The Friend Inside" tried to tempt Jim to do what to things? | To drink and to take bribes for the messages |
| In "old Sly Eye" the author uses the literary device of ____________ to relate a trapping expedition that had occurred proir to the action in the story. | flashback |
| In "The Rainy day" Longfellow compares a rainy day to ___________________. | his own life |
| In her poem "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet," Anne Bradstreet addresses ________________. | her grandchild |
| What is one way in which the author of "The Mahogany Fox" encourages the reader to sympathize with the fox? | makes it clear everyone is out to kill the fox |
| At the end of "The Mahogany Fox, what happens to Old Mahogany? | Old Mahogany gets away |
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