8th Grade ELA
Author of "Tell Tale Heart" and "The Raven"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
words that mean the same as another are called
What is synonym?
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence
What is inference
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
This person created Facebook?
Who is Mark Zuckerberg?
Paraphrase a story we have read this year
answers vary
make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters.
What is to vex?
The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning
What is context clues
This modifies a noun
What is adjective?
In 2020, the most important social media app for teens (ahead of TikTok)
What snapchat?
What are the two requirements when it comes to a theme statement
life lesson and universal
To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text
What is annotate?
How is mood different from tone
Mood is how the reader feels, and tone is the feelings that the author create or their attitude towards a subject.
This part of speech modifies a noun and gives info about where or when
What is a preposition?
This is the most popular sport in America
What is Football?
What are the two types of character motivation?
internal and external
Extremely bold or aggressive
What is audacity?
A word that describes action or a state of being
What is a verb?
This is the number of Harry Potter movies
What is 8?
Name 2 genres we have read this school year
informational, science fiction, horror, short story, fiction (any two)
Jeering laughter or ridicule
What is derision?
Somebody, wanted, but, so, then, finally
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
Uses the metaphor 'My boy loves his friends like I love my split ends' in one of her songs.
Who is Billie Eilish?