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?
Every body paragraph must contain these.
What are a claim, text evidence, and an explanation.
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 (describes) 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?
The part of the essay that restates the thesis and give the reader something to do or think about.
What is a conclusion?
This part of speech modifies/describes a verb.
What is an adverb?
This is the most popular sport in America
What is Football?
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What is the salutation/greeting?
3 types of figurative language.
What are: alliteration, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, imagery, etc.
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?
What is the difference between denotation and connotation?
denotation is the dictionary or literal definition
connotation is the feelings behind a word
The main character of "The Circuit".
Who is Francisco?
Three parts of a basic essay.
Intro, body and conclusion.
List four pronouns.
What are I, you, he, she, it, we, they, him, his, her, hers, theirs, etc.
Uses the simile "My boy loves his friends like I love my split ends" in one of her songs.
Who is Billie Eilish?