Cameron's+Review

Concept Review: Seventh Grade  Concept Definition Example Analogy: Comparing two things //Example: Getting your drivers licenses is like getting A's and B's in Middle School// Metaphor : To compare a noun to another without using the words "//like//" or "//as//" //Example//: //Your hair is white snow// Simile: To compare a noun when using the words "//like//" or "//as//" //Example//: //Your hair is as white as snow// Idiom: Special phrasing //Example//: //Your eyes are bigger than your stomach// Personification: To take a non-living item and make it have human abilities. //Example//: //The tree was dancing in the wind// Hyperbole: To exaggerate Example: //We have been walking for 1,000 hours// (But it was really 10 minutes) Root words Affixes Word meanings • Definition • Example • Restate • Contrast Textbooks Newspapers Signs Instruction manuals Atlas Almanac Encyclopedia Cause and effect Author’s argument/ Point of view/ Perspective Technical directions Consumer and workplace documents Author’s evidence Bias: Giving someone something that the others don't get //Example: I think my son is the best football player in the team.// Stereotyping Short story Novella: Novel: A novel is a long narrative literary prose. //Example:// Essay Plot: The problem of the story //Example: The bad guy has the gold chain and will destroy the whole Earth!// Foreshadowing Characterization Theme: The theme is the moral; what you have learned in the story. First Person Third Person omniscient Third Person Limited Subjective Point of View Objective Point of view Transitions Anecdotes Descriptions Facts: The facts are the true things about the objects. Statistics Examples: An example is a picture of the problem. Note-taking Outlining Summarizing Paraphrasing/rephrasing Bibliography In-text citation Revise for organization Revise for word choice Beginning/middle/end Conflict/resolution Rising action Climax: Denouement Major and minor characters Setting Dialogue: Dialogue is a person speaking in a narrative or any kind of story. //Example: Mark said, " I'm Hungry".// Suspense Narrative action Organize around clear ideas and images Card catalog Magazine Newspaper Dictionary Footnotes Support and proposition Reader’s concern Counter argument Main idea Significant details Modifiers Active voice Infinitives Participles Pronouns and antecedents Parts of speech Structure and types of sentences Pronoun reference Quotation marks Commas Dependent and independent clauses Hyphens Dashes Brackets Semicolons capitalization: A capitalization is a letter or the first letter of the word is majuscule (Upper-case letter)