FSA Grade 7 flashcards
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- Central idea
- The main point a whole passage conveys about its topic, stated in one complete sentence and supported by details from across the entire text.
- Theme
- A universal message about life or human nature that a literary work conveys, expressed in a full sentence rather than a single word.
- Textual evidence
- A direct quotation or accurate paraphrase from a text, cited so that a reader can locate it and verify the claim it supports.
- Inference
- A conclusion drawn by combining explicit details in a text with background knowledge, even though the author never states that conclusion directly.
- Simile
- A comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as, such as describing someone as brave as a lion.
- Metaphor
- A direct comparison that states one thing is another without using like or as, such as calling a classroom a beehive of activity.
- Personification
- A figure of speech giving human qualities or actions to something nonhuman, as when wind whispers or a clock refuses to move.
- Hyperbole
- Deliberate, obvious exaggeration used for emphasis or humor rather than literal meaning, such as saying a bag weighs a ton.
- Connotation
- The emotional or cultural association a word carries beyond its dictionary meaning, which can make otherwise similar words feel positive or negative.
- Tone
- The author's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, revealed through word choice, sentence structure, and details rather than stated outright.
- Claim
- A debatable statement an argument tries to prove, supported by reasons and evidence rather than presented as an unquestionable fact.
- Counterclaim
- An opposing position that a strong argument acknowledges and then answers with a rebuttal supported by evidence.
- Context clue
- Information in surrounding sentences that helps a reader infer an unfamiliar word's meaning through definition, example, contrast, or general sense.
- Compare and contrast
- A text structure that examines similarities and differences between two or more subjects, often signaled by words such as both, unlike, and whereas.
- Subject-verb agreement
- The rule that a verb must match its subject in number, ignoring interrupting phrases, so a singular subject takes a singular verb.
- Summarize
- To restate a text's central idea and key supporting details briefly in one's own words, leaving out minor examples and personal opinion.
- Proportional relationship
- A relationship in which two quantities have a constant ratio, modeled by y = kx and graphed as a straight line through the origin.
- Constant of proportionality
- The fixed value k in y = kx, found by dividing any y-value by its corresponding x-value in a proportional table or graph.
- Unit rate
- A rate expressed per one unit of the second quantity, found by dividing the first quantity by the second, such as miles per hour.
- Percent change
- The ratio of the amount of increase or decrease to the original amount, multiplied by 100, showing how much a value grew or shrank.
- Markup
- The amount added to a wholesale cost to set a selling price, calculated as a percent of the original cost.
- Additive inverse
- The number that sums with a given number to make zero; for any number a, its additive inverse is −a.
- Rational number
- Any number that can be written as a fraction of two integers with a nonzero denominator, including terminating and repeating decimals.
- Order of operations
- The agreed sequence for evaluating expressions: parentheses, exponents, multiplication and division left to right, then addition and subtraction left to right.
- Like terms
- Terms that have identical variable parts with the same exponents, so their coefficients can be added or subtracted to simplify an expression.
- Two-step equation
- An equation requiring two inverse operations to isolate the variable, usually undoing addition or subtraction before multiplication or division.
- Inequality
- A statement comparing expressions with symbols such as less than or greater than, whose solution is a range of values rather than one number.
- Circle area
- The number of square units inside a circle, calculated with the formula A = πr², where r is the radius.
- Circumference
- The distance around a circle, calculated as C = 2πr or C = πd, where d is the diameter and r is the radius.
- Prism volume
- The amount of space inside a prism, found by multiplying the area of its base by its height, written V = Bh.
- Supplementary angles
- Two angles whose measures add to 180 degrees, often formed as adjacent angles along a straight line.
- Probability
- A number from 0 to 1 describing how likely an event is, calculated as the number of favorable outcomes divided by total outcomes.