8th Grade Vocabulary
Plot
8th Grade Skills
Figurative Language
8th Grade Grammar Skills
100

These words mean about the same thing

What are synonyms?

100

The turning point of a story

What is the climax?

100

The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence

What is an inference?

100

The sea lashed out in anger at the ships.

What is personification?

100

What kind of sentence has a subject and a verb?

Simple

200

These small word "parts" are added to the end of a word to change its meaning

What are suffixes?

200

The primary problem that drives the action of the story; what the protagonist needs to overcome

What is the conflict?

200

To mark up the text with notes, definitions, or other things to help you understand the text

What are annotations?

200

I can run as fast as a cheetah.

What is a simile?

200

What type of sentence is this? After she finishes the dishes, Tracy will take the dog for a walk.

Complex

300

These words mean the opposite

What are antonyms?

300

The introduction to a story, including the characters and setting

What is the exposition?

300
Examples include persuade, inform or entertain

What is author's purpose?

300

I planted purple petunias in the park.

What is alliteration?

300

How many types of sentences have we learned about in class and what are they?

3. Simple, Compound, and Complex

400

These small word "parts" are added to the beginning of words to change its meaning

What are prefixes?

400
Not always happy, but it does complete the story. It can leave the reader with questions, answers, frustration, or satisfaction.

What is the resolution?

400

The character that often creates the conflict in a story

What is the antagonist?

400

The classroom is an ice box today!

What is a metaphor?

400

What type of sentence is this? I love swimming and I love water slides too!

Compound

500

The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine the meaning

What are context clues?

500

All of the events that lead to the eventual climax, including character development and events that create suspense.

What is the rising action?

500

The lesson or message that can be learned from a story

What is theme?

500

I can smell pizza from a mile away!

What is hyperbole?

500

Name 4 different types of punctuation marks.

periods, commas, exclamation marks, quotation marks (There are 14 in all!)

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