8th Grade ELA
ELA Vocab
8th Grade Writing Skills
Grammar
MS. SHAW
100

The term used to make an educated guess based on evidence

What is inference

100

This is what a text is mainly about

What is central idea or main idea

100

The page at the end of a paper where you cite your sources

What is a works cited page

100

A person place or thing

What is a noun

100

Ms. Shaw's favorite color?

What is Green

200

A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to objects

What is personification

200

Clearly stated and in detail

What is explicitly

200

What is the role of the conclusion paragraph?

Restates what the entire essay covered; leaves the reader with a final thought.  

200

An action

What is a verb

200

Ms. Shaw's first name? (Must pronounce it CORRECTLY)

Who is Araina-Grace

300

What is theme?

The universal message of the story.

300

The words and phrases around a difficult word to help the reader determine meaning. Gives us hints and helps us to better understand.  

What is context clues 

300

When providing a parenthetical citation (author's last name and page number), where does the end punctuation ALWAYS go if it is a period?

AFTER the parentheses.  

For example, "An average of 20% of people prefer owning a cat to a dog" (Brown 24).

300

A describing word

What is an adjective

300

Ms. Shaw's favorite artist?

Who is Chris Brown

400

A group of lines in a poem?

What is a stanza

400

To mark up the text with notes, questions, or other things that help you understand the text

What is annotate?

400

Three things do needed in a introduction paragraph?

Hook

Background Information/ transition information 

Thesis

400

A word used to replace a noun

Pronoun

400

The university that Ms. Shaw graduated from?

What is UNCG!

500

When a word is spelled the same but means something different

EX. (bark & bark) 

What is a Homonym

500

When the opposite of what we expect occurs, what type of irony do we have? For exampe, the fire house burns down in the middle of the night.  

Situation Irony 

500

Connects the evidence to the claim and helps to show how the evidence proves the overall thesis.

What is reasoning

500

A word that describes a verbs and/or adjective

What is an adverb

500

The grade did Ms. Shaw teach last year?

What is 7th grade

600

What is dramatic irony?

When we as the reader or viewer know more than the characters in the story/ show/ play know.  

600

A comparison between two things to compare or clarify

What is an analogy

600

Part of a counterargument: Explains why the opposition is wrong and why are you correct?

What is a rebuttal?

600

A word used to identify a noun 

EX. (a, an, the)

What is an article

600

Ms. Shaw's top phrases? (3 options)

Not too much

Y'all are doing too much

Be forreal