8th Grade ELA
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence
What is inference
This is what a text is mainly about
What is central idea or main idea
The page at the end of a paper where you cite your sources
What is a works cited page
A person place or thing
What is a noun
Ms. Shaw's favorite color?
What is Green
A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to objects
What is personification
Clearly stated and in detail
What is explicitly
What is the role of the conclusion paragraph?
Restates what the entire essay covered; leaves the reader with a final thought.
An action
What is a verb
Ms. Shaw's first name? (Must pronounce it CORRECTLY)
Who is Araina-Grace
What is theme?
The universal message of the story.
The words and phrases around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning. Gives us hints and helps us to better understand.
What is context clues
When providing a parenthetical citation (author's last name and page number), where does the end punctuation ALWAYS go if it is a period?
AFTER the parentheses.
For example, "An average of 20% of people prefer owning a cat to a dog" (Brown 24).
A describing word
What is an adjective
Ms. Shaw's favorite artist?
Who is Chris Brown
A group of lines in a poem?
What is a stanza
To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text
What is annotate?
Three things do needed in a introduction paragraph?
Hook
Background Information/ transition information
Thesis
A word used to replace a noun
Pronoun
The university that Ms. Shaw graduated from?
What is UNCG!
When a word is spelled the same but means something different
EX. (bark & bark)
What is a Homonym
When the opposite of what we expect occurs, what type of irony do we have? For exampe, the fire house burns down in the middle of the night.
Situation Irony
Connects the evidence to the claim and helps to show how the evidence proves the overall thesis.
What is reasoning
A word that describes a verbs and/or adjective
What is an adverb
The grade did Ms. Shaw teach last year?
What is 7th grade
What is dramatic irony?
When we as the reader or viewer know more than the characters in the story/ show/ play know.
A comparison between two things to compare or clarify
What is an analogy
Part of a counterargument: Explains why the opposition is wrong and why are you correct?
What is a rebuttal?
A word used to identify a noun
EX. (a, an, the)
What is an article
Ms. Shaw's top phrases? (3 options)
Not too much
Y'all are doing too much
Be forreal