Reading 8th Grade
The word for the feeling a word makes you feel.
What is connotation?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the thesis statement or claim
Change this sentence to active voice:
The scores given by the judges were fair.
What is The judges gave fair scores.
What is it called when a poem has words that have the same sound at the end of a line like this
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rhyme scheme/ pattern
The lawn was mowed by the student is in what voice?
What is passive voice
When the narrator uses "She, He, they" it is written in this perspective
What is Third Person
For, and, nor, but, or, yet, so, moreover, however, next, etc.
What are transition words
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room" is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
Identify the infinitive in the sentence below:
Theo, Shakur and Adeola wanted to wear their fashion show cultural attire to the dance too.
What is to wear
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
The message or lesson that can apply to you/me
What is Theme
****DAILY DOUBLE *****
What is the part of the essay that acknowledges the opposite opinion and attempts to disprove it?
What is a counterclaim
It's raining cats and dogs.
This is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is an Idiom
In the plot structure diagram, what happens AFTER the climax, but BEFORE the resolution?
What is falling action
"Janice thought the man was friendly, but Casey thought he was malicious."
What does malicious mean in the sentence?
What is bad, dangerous, sketchy, mean
What the story is mainly about?
Central or Main idea
The part of the writing or speech that is the first sentence and captures the readers attention
What is a hook
To describe how things are alike and how they are different
What is compare and contrast?
What is a a Hyperbole?
What is an extreme exaggeration?
When you cite evidence to prove your answer, how do you let the reader know that you found the evidence in the passage?
Write on the whiteboard how you would cite your evidence
What is quote the evidence using quotation marks followed by the author's name and page number in parentheses, and a period at the end
".........." (author's name page #).
How an informational text/article is organized is known as its __________ ___________
(Ex. Description, cause and effect, problem and solution, chronological order, compare and contrast)
What is text structure
This is the last part of a paper that wraps it up. It is best to end this with a STRONG impact statement.
What is a conclusion?
Which figurative language is the following sentence?
She is a tornado when she gets angry!
What is a Metaphor
The overall feeling the author creates by his choice of words sets the tone. The emotion of feeling it makes YOU the reader feel is called...
What is Mood
What two things must a sentence have to be a sentence?
What is subject and verb.
The word we learned that means to EXPLAIN your thinking
What is justify?
The word that means REASON.
What is premise?
A word called when it means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
The voice is used in the following sentence:
I read the book.
What is active voice?
What are the seven parts of an argumentative paragraph and the introduction in an argumentative essay and a response to literature essay?
What is a 1. Hook (optional), 2. TAG, 3. Premise (reason why the claim is true), 4. Claim, 5. Intro to evidence, 6. Evidence, and 7. Justification (Reasoning why the evidence proves the claim and premise)