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

Words in a sentence that look like verbs but are not, and act as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs

Verbals

100

words that mean the same as another are called 

What is synonym?

100

What is mood?

Mood is how the reader feels

100

A person, place, thing, or idea

Noun

100

An author's reason or intent for writing

Author's Purpose

200

Name the three types of verbals

Gerund, Participle, Infinitive 

200

What is connotation?

Idea or feeling a word brings up versus its literal meaning

200

Identify the gerund

Lacey turned off her phone and shut the door so she could focus on studying.

Studying

200

This describes a noun

Adjective

200

When something happens because something else happened. _________ and ________

Cause and Effect

300

Name all the points of views

First Person, Second Person, Third Person

300

The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence

Inference

300

Is the following sentence active or passive?

Every two weeks, my body armor drinks are delivered by Amazon.

Passive

300

Describes a verb

adverb

300

Name a crucial part of a paragraph 

Topic Sentence

Claim

Evidence

Elaboration

400

What are the three separations of word (all with different meanings) that when combined make one whole word with a similar meaning?

Prefix, Base/root, Suffix

400

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

Context Clues 

400

Read the sentence below. Determine the type of verbal and its function of the word BURNING as it is used in the sentence below.

Amazingly, the man climbed out of the burning vehicle unharmed.

Participle- Adjective

400

A word that describes action or a state of being

Verb

400

What figurative language is used in the sentence below?

Fall Fridays feel fantastic

Alliteration

500

Name 4 things that identify a sentence as passive voice

1. To be verb

2. Past Participle

3. By

4. Subject behind the verb

500

What compares or contrasts things by putting two things together? (_____ is to _____ as _______ is to ______)

Analogy

500

Where should the dash go in the following sentence? (right the two words it goes between)

The American flag has three colors red, white, and blue  

colors-red

500

The part of speech that receives that action. What the action is being done to. 

Ex. I threw the ball


direct object

500

What is tone?

the feelings that the author create or their attitude towards a subject.