8th Grade ELA
ELA Vocab
8th Grade Skills
Parts of Speech
8th Grade Pop Culture
100

Author of "The Telltale Heart"

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

100

words that mean the same as another are called 

What is synonym?

100

The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence

What is inference

100

A person, place, thing, or idea

What is a noun?

100

This person created Facebook?

Who is Mark Zuckerberg?

200

Paraphrase a story we have read this year 

answers vary

200

What book do you use to find the definition of a word?

What is a dictionary?

200

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

What is context clues 

200

This modifies a noun

What is adjective?

200

In 2020, the most important social media app for teens (ahead of TikTok)

What snapchat?

300

What is the first sentence of an intro paragraph?

What is a hook?

300

To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text

What is annotate?

300

What part of an essay lets the reader know what the entire paper will be about?

Thesis statement

300

This part of speech modifies a noun and gives info about where or when

What is a preposition?

300

This is the most popular sport in America

What is Football?

400

What is the difference between denotation and connotation? 

denotation is the dictionary or literal definition 

connotation is the feelings behind a word

400

Name a work that contains a suffix.

Answers may vary.

400

What is it called when you refer to a well know story or subject to make a point?

An Allusion

400

A word that describes action or a state of being

What is a verb?

400

This is the number of Harry Potter movies

What is 8?

500

Name 5 stories we have read this school year

answers vary

500

Who were the main characters in "The Landlady?

Who are The Landlady and Billy Weaver
500
Name 3 things that are included in MLA format.

Answers will vary

500

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 


500

Uses the metaphor 'My boy loves his friends like I love my split ends' in one of her songs.

Who is Billie Eilish?

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