8th Grade ELA
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective.
What is first person?
The type of verbal used in the following sentence:
A running engine produces enough energy to heat the hood of a car.
What is a participle?
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence.
What is inference?
What a thesis statement is and where it goes in an essay.
What is it tells the reader what they will read about, it has the claim and three things you will write about, and it is the last sentence in your introduction paragraph?
How the text is intended to cause the reader to feel.
What is mood?
When a narrator uses "he, she, they, their," the story is written in _____ person.
What is third?
What words that mean the opposite of one another are called.
What are antonyms?
The words and phrases around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning. Gives us hints and helps us to better understand.
What are context clues?
At the meeting, the teachers realized they would need to consolidate their math teams so they would have enough people to participate in the competition on Saturday morning.
What the word consolidate means as it is used in the sentence.
What is combine?
Language that is part of the author's craft that is vivid and appeals to the 5 senses.
What is imagery?
When a narrator uses the words "you, yourself, your," the story is written in _____ person.
What is second?
This is a literary tool that an author may use in which an object or action means something more than its literal meaning.
What is symbolism?
Read the poem excerpt:
The wind whispers through the trees,
Telling tales on every breeze.
The moon looks down with silver eyes,
Watching stars that dot the skies.
What is the theme of the poem?
A. There is danger in the night.
B. Nature is a storyteller.
C. The wind is lonely.
D. The unknown is frightening.
What is B. "Nature is a storyteller"?
The wind and moon are personified as telling stories and watching the night sky, suggesting nature has a voice and presence.
The author's attitude towards the subject on which he/she is writing.
What is tone?
"He was running a thousand miles per hour" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
A comparison that uses like or as.
What is a simile?
What the text is mostly about is known as the _______ ________ of the text.
What is central/main idea?
The literary device that is used in the line, "The wind whispers through the trees."
What is personification?
The FEELING associated with a word.
What is connotation?
A literary device used by authors to provide hints to the reader about events that will occur later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
The message or lesson that can be learned from a story.
What is theme?
A direct comparison to something that DOES NOT USE like or as.
What is metaphor?
What the most interesting part of a story is referred to as.
What is the climax?
The part of an argumentative essay that acknowledges the opposite opinion AND attempts to disprove it?
What the counterclaim AND rebuttal?
An author may use this type of character who develops or changes throughout the text to develop the plot.
What is dynamic character?
What does the word gullible mean in the following sentence?
There are any number of miracle cures for various illnesses for people gullible enough to buy them.
What is easily deceived, tricked or fooled; too trusting?
What does the word tenacious mean in the following sentence?
Even though Jackson was smaller than his other teammates, his tenacious attitude allowed him to accomplish as much as they did.
What is extremely persistent; never giving up or letting anyone get in his way; fiercely determined?
The line that contains an example of alliteration.
A. "Telling tales on every breeze"
B. "The moon looks down with silver eyes"
C. "Watching stars that dot the skies"
D. "The wind blows through the trees"
What is A. "Telling tales on every breeze"?
The repetition of the "t" sound in "telling tales" is alliteration.
The voice the following sentence is written in: ACTIVE or PASSIVE.
The ball was kicked by the child.
What is passive? To change to active we would say the following:
The child kicked the ball.
A struggle between opposing forces, usually involving the main character that the author uses to develop the plot.
What is a conflict?