8th Grade ELA
Author of Omnivore's Dilemma"
Who is Michael Pollan?
She was going ____ the store.
What is to?
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence
What is inference
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
A stanza is a ____ in poetry.
What is a paragraph?
What does GMO stand for?
What is genetically modified organisms?
She gave my sister ___ much!
What is too?
The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning
What is context clues
This modifies a noun
What is adjective?
Name this literary device:
Her lips were like soft petals of a rose.
What is a simile?
To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text
What is annotate?
The recipe called for ___ eggs to be put in the mixture.
What is two?
What does the TEA acronym mean?
what is the
topic sentence
evidence
analysis
This part of speech modifies a verb or adjective; sometimes has an "-ly" at the end of it.
What is an adverb?
An ordered pattern of rhyming words at the end of a line of poetry is called...
What is rhyme scheme?
What is the difference between denotation and connotation?
denotation is the dictionary or literal definition
connotation is the feelings behind a word
She enjoyed swimming and riding her bike this summer, ____!
What is too?
Words that mean the same as another are called...
What are synonyms?
A word that describes action or a state of being
What is a verb?
Name this literary device:
"Chocolate Chewy Cheese"
What is alliteration?
What P.I.E. when it comes to writing or reading?
What is author's purpose or persuade, inform, or entertain?
What is two, to, too?
Words that are opposite meaning are called...
What are antonyms?
Label the parts of speech in this sentence
"Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is beautiful."
"Ms. Crook is dressed fabulously today, and her makeup is beautiful."
nouns- Ms.Crook, today, makeup , her (pronoun)
verbs - is , is , dressed
adverb - fabulously
adj - beautiful
conjunction- and
Identify this rhyme scheme:
Plop fall the plums; but there are still seven.
Let any gentleman that would court me
Come while it is lucky!
Plop fall the plums; there are still three.
What is ABBB?