8th Grade ELA
SHOWS the audience the character’s personality
What is indirect characterization?
To break down to examine
What is analyze?
True or False: All poems need to rhyme.
What is False?
Speaker's attitude
What is tone?
Human qualities are given to a non-human thing.
What is personification?
The reason for writing a story
All the ways things are alike. All the ways they are different. Hint: Type of Structure
What is connections and distinctions? OR What is compare and contrast?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
The reason for writing a story
What is author's purpose?
Words/ phrases are used to exaggerate for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
You can always support your claim with this
What is relevant text evidence?
Back up with details
What is support?
A type of poem that has NO set pattern
What is free verse?
The lesson or moral of the story that can be applied to anyone, anywhere
What is theme?
The use of descriptive and figurative language to create a picture in the reader's mind.
What is imagery?
When you are presenting the opposing side of the argument
What is a counterclaim/counterargument?
When an author's purpose is to convince
What is persuade?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
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What is the rhyme scheme?
What is ABCB?
What the story is mostly about
What is central idea? (or main idea)
Words that imitate the sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
Name both types of Conflicts.
External and Internal Conflict
What does "propels the action" mean?
A. - Increases
B. - Moves forward
C. - Stops
What is propels?
What is B. (Moves Forward)?
A poem that tells a story complete with characters, setting & plot
What is a narrative poem?
In this POV, the narrator shows us what many characters think and feel (Be Specific)
What is third person omniscient?
Future events/outcome are suggested by the author to keep the reader interested.
What is foreshadowing?