8th Grade Midterm

VOCAB

100

• a person who eats or consumes to excess; a person who engages in a particular activity to excess:

glutton

200

• to make feeble; to weaken:

debilitate 

300

• to dislike intensely:

loathe

400

To corrupt or ruin by contaminating

taint

500

Having a hidden or secret meaning

cryptic

LIT TERMS

100

• Central message revealed through a literary work

Theme

200

• Main character in a work of fiction

Protagonist

300

• A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else; a comparison between two unlike things

metaphor

400

• The use in literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur

foreshadow

500

• In literature, an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current

flashback

GRAMMAR

100

You and I in the sentence, "You and I are first on the list" are a compound subject, complete subject, simple predicate, or complete predicate?

compound subject

200

The phrase, Alaska Pacific University in the sentence "Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage sponsors several programs like this" is a simple predicate, complete subject, complete predicate, or simple subject?

Complete Subject

300

Usually in the sentence, "It is usually hard for my little brother to recall what he has done" is what part of speech? 

Adverb

400

What is the complement in 

• Computers are useful machines for problem solving and for information processing.

machines

500

"Living through a hurricane" in the sentence below is a participial, gerund or infinitive phrase?

• As I found out last summer, living through a hurricane is a nerve-shattering experience.

gerund

TKAM

100

The physical setting of To Kill a Mockingbird is.

Maycomb, Alabama

200

The point of view of the novel

first-person main character

300

What makes Jem decide to return to the Radley yard to retrieve his pants?

He did not want to disappoint Atticus.

400

When Mayella Ewell is on the stand, how does she think Atticus is mocking her?

He calls her "Miss Mayella."

500

Who actually killed Bob Ewell?

Boo Radley