8th Grade ELA
Name all the points of views.
First Person, Second Person, Third Person
words that mean the same as another are called
What is synonym?
What day is your 8th grade promotion ceremony?
May 21st
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen
Suspense
What do the terms protagonist and antagonist mean?
A protagonist is - The main character in a story, often the hero or central figure.
An antagonist is - The character or force that is in opposition to the main character or protagonist.
The words around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning
What is context clues
This describes a noun
What is adjective?
Ban the Ban was an example of this type of writing.
What is argumentative?
To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text
What is annotate?
This term means the overall feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing evokes in the reader
Mood
This part of speech modifies a noun and gives info about where or when
What is a preposition?
Provide a short summary of a story we read this year.
answers vary
Hints or suggestions about events that will happen later in the story.
Foreshadowing
The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence
What is inference
A word that describes action or a state of being
What is a verb?
True or False: Flowers for Algernon is based on a true story.
False
When the audience or reader has a better understanding of events than the characters in the story do.
Dramatic irony.
What three things do we need in a introduction paaragraph?
Hook
Background Information
Thesis
The word beautifully is an example of what part of speech?