8th Grade ELA
Author of "The Telltale Heart"
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
What book do you use to find the definition of a word?
What is a dictionary?
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 is the first sentence of an intro paragraph?
What is a hook?
To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text
What is annotate?
What part of an essay lets the reader know what the entire paper will be about?
Thesis statement
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 is the difference between denotation and connotation?
denotation is the dictionary or literal definition
connotation is the feelings behind a word
Name a work that contains a suffix.
Answers may vary.
What is it called when you refer to a well know story or subject to make a point?
An Allusion
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 5 stories we have read this school year
answers vary
Who were the main characters in "The Landlady?
Answers will vary
Label the parts of speech in this sentence.
You must find a noun, verb, adverb, adjective, and conjunction.
"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?