Reading 7 (In response to “What are the building blocks of literature?”
Students will study definitions and examples for the 70+ literary terms we will examine this year, taken from “The Glossary of Literary Terms” in our Literature textbook.
On the seven quizzes based on these literary terms, students will define terms and give examples of how they are used in literary works, including the five critical essays on short stories they completed this past summer.
Calendar for seventh grade literary term tests:
Literary term test #1 (short stories and novels) will consist of the following terms: allusion, antagonist, cause and effect, characterization, classic, climax, conflict, connotation, contrast, denotation, description, dialect, dialogue, exposition
Test date: Friday, September 29
Literary term test #2 (short stories and novels--Part II): fable, falling action, fantasy, fiction, flashback, folklore, foreshadowing,
historical fiction, humor, hyperbole, irony, memoir, mood, moral
Test date: Friday, October 13
Literary term test #3 (short stories and novels--Part III): narrative, narrator, novel, paradox, plot, point of view, protagonist,
realistic fiction, rising action, satire, science fiction, sequence, short story, style, surprise ending, suspense, symbol, tall tale, theme, tone
Test date: Monday, October 30
Literary term test #4 (poetry): alliteration, ballad, couplet, epic, exaggeration, extended metaphor, figurative language, free verse,
genre, idiom, imagery, lyric poetry
Test date: Friday, November 10
Literary term test #5 (poetry--Part II): meter, onomatopoeia, personification, poetry, repetition, rhyme, rhyme scheme, sensory
details, simile, speaker, stanza, voice
Test date: Tuesday, November 28
Literary term test #6 (drama): act, audience, cast of characters, comedy, drama, motivation, playwright, prop, radio play, scene,
scenery, script, stage, stage directions
Test date: Thursday, December 7
Literary term test #7 (expository and persuasive writing): analogy, autobiography, biography, chronological order, context clues,
deductive order, essay, form, generalization, inductive order, inference, interview, persuasion, speech, SQ3R, stereotype
Test date: Thursday, December 21
Students will study definitions and examples for the 70+ literary terms we will examine this year, taken from “The Glossary of Literary Terms” in our Literature textbook.
On the seven quizzes based on these literary terms, students will define terms and give examples of how they are used in literary works, including the five critical essays on short stories they completed this past summer.
Calendar for seventh grade literary term tests:
Literary term test #1 (short stories and novels) will consist of the following terms: allusion, antagonist, cause and effect, characterization, classic, climax, conflict, connotation, contrast, denotation, description, dialect, dialogue, exposition
Test date: Friday, September 29
Literary term test #2 (short stories and novels--Part II): fable, falling action, fantasy, fiction, flashback, folklore, foreshadowing,
historical fiction, humor, hyperbole, irony, memoir, mood, moral
Test date: Friday, October 13
Literary term test #3 (short stories and novels--Part III): narrative, narrator, novel, paradox, plot, point of view, protagonist,
realistic fiction, rising action, satire, science fiction, sequence, short story, style, surprise ending, suspense, symbol, tall tale, theme, tone
Test date: Monday, October 30
Literary term test #4 (poetry): alliteration, ballad, couplet, epic, exaggeration, extended metaphor, figurative language, free verse,
genre, idiom, imagery, lyric poetry
Test date: Friday, November 10
Literary term test #5 (poetry--Part II): meter, onomatopoeia, personification, poetry, repetition, rhyme, rhyme scheme, sensory
details, simile, speaker, stanza, voice
Test date: Tuesday, November 28
Literary term test #6 (drama): act, audience, cast of characters, comedy, drama, motivation, playwright, prop, radio play, scene,
scenery, script, stage, stage directions
Test date: Thursday, December 7
Literary term test #7 (expository and persuasive writing): analogy, autobiography, biography, chronological order, context clues,
deductive order, essay, form, generalization, inductive order, inference, interview, persuasion, speech, SQ3R, stereotype
Test date: Thursday, December 21