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Essential English

The document provides definitions and explanations of essential English concepts for Grade 7, including active listening, allusion, audience, and various literary terms such as characterization, climax, and conflict. It also covers writing processes like drafting and editing, as well as types of writing like expository and narrative. Additionally, it discusses elements of drama, poetry, and the use of audio-visual aids in learning.

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Essential English

The document provides definitions and explanations of essential English concepts for Grade 7, including active listening, allusion, audience, and various literary terms such as characterization, climax, and conflict. It also covers writing processes like drafting and editing, as well as types of writing like expository and narrative. Additionally, it discusses elements of drama, poetry, and the use of audio-visual aids in learning.

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ESSENTIAL ENGLISH

GRADE 7
A
Active listening- It is a technique whereby the listener repeats (often in other words) what the
speaker has said to demonstrate his or her understanding.
Allusion- is an indirect reference to a well-known person, object, or event for vividness and
brevity.
Audience- It is the intended readers of a particular piece of writing.
Audio-visual aids- These are learning and teaching aids such as audio, video, overhead
projection, posters, pictures, and graphics.

B
Blog- This refers to online diary.
Brainstorming- It is a group activity where students freely contribute their ideas to a topic to
generate ideas.

C
Characterization- It is the means through which an author reveals a character's personality.
Climax- It is the point in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the conflict
reaches its greatest intensity and is then resolved.
Conflict- it is a clash between opposing forces. A conflict may be external, a struggle between
the character and outside forces. An outside force may be another character, the society or
community, forces of nature, or even technology. An internal conflict is a struggle within the
character's mind, feelings, or emotions.
Connected speech processes- It is the way in which sounds are pronounced in words, phrases,
and sentences during normal uninterrupted speech.

D
Dialogue- This refers to the exchange or conversation between the characters in a drama or
story.
Dialect- It is the variety of speech distinguished by local vocabulary, pronunciation, or grammar
constructions.
Denotation- This refers to the exact meaning or the dictionary meaning of a word.
Drafting- It is a step in a writing process where the writer explains the ideas that he had outlined
or organized during the brainstorming stage.
Drama- It is a play written for TV, radio, or stage performance.
Dramatic monologue- This literary device is used when a character reveals his or her intimate
or hidden thoughts and feelings through a poem or a speech. In this speech, only one character
speaks or recites while other characters are present onstage.

E
Editing (proofreading)- It is the correction of mechanics of writing such as spelling,
punctuation, capitalization, etc.
Expository writing- It is the writing that gives information, explains why or how, clearness a
process, or defines a concept.

F
Fiction- These are stories about people and events that are not real or imagined.
Figurative language- It is a type of language that is opposite of literal language, in which words
mean exactly what they say. It does mean exactly what it says, but instead forces the reader to
make an imaginative leap in order to comprehend an author's point.
Fluency- It is the natural, normal, native-like speech characterized by appropriate pauses,
intonation, stress, register, word choice, interjections, and interruptions.
Genre- It refers to a type of literature- a poem, novel, story, drama, or other literary work.
Graphic organizer- This is a concept map or story map, relationship chart, etc. that organizes
information.
Gestures- These are the body/hand movements that are used to emphasize ideas.

L
Literary device- This is similar to literary techniques which are used by writers to convey their
message.
Lyric poetry- It is a song-like poem written primarily to express personal feelings of emotions
or thought from a particular individual. Lyric poems are traditionally spoken in the present tense.
M
Major character- It is the important character who plays a big role in a story. Major characters
usually face major complications in a story; they are present throughout (or almost) a story.
Myth- This is any story that attempts to explain how the world was created or why the world is
the way that it is. Myths are stories that are passed on from generation to generation and
normally involve beliefs or religion.

N
Narrative- It is a collection of events that tells a story, which may be true or not, placed in a
particular order and recounted through either telling or writing.
Narrative poem- It is a poem that tells a story. A narrative poem can come in many forms and
styles, both complex and simple, short or long, as long as it tells a story.

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