Grammar
Review Literature
What do I know about 8th grade!
Stories
Writing Life
100

A person, place, thing, or idea.

A person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a noun?

100

The message or moral of the story.

What is a theme?

100

You have at least___________ core teachers.

What is 4?

100

In this story there was an aggressive dog that terrorize a lady and her son.

What is "Cujo"?

100

The reason an author's write is called the _____________ purpose.

What is the author's?

200

It is a group of words added to a sentence to enhance the sentence structure.

What is a phrase?

200

When a personal struggles from within-we call that an ___________________.

What is an internal conflict?

200

This score determines the level of book you can read it can get is high as 1700.

What is a lexile score?

200

The son in the Monkey's Paw was ____________.

Who is Herbert?

200

This is used in writing to help structure thoughts in a clear and concise way.

What is a graphic organizer?

300


It is a group a words that contains a subject and its verb.

What is a clause?

300

In a plot analysis, the characters, setting, and conflict is introduce in this part.

What is the exposition?

300

When you take a class outside of your main required subject classes you are taking _____________ class.

What is an exploratory or encore class?

300

In this story, the main character was _____________. A lady suffering  from ____________.

Mrs. Stevenson, anxiety or paranoia.

300

If you are writing a narrative, your characters may start talking. This is called______________.

What is dialogue?

400


These two parts of speech contributes to vivid and precise language in writing. They normally describe nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.

What are adjectives and adverbs?

400

In a plot analysis, the anxiety and feeling to read more is created in this part of the plot.

What is the rising action?

400

There are ______________8th graders. An estimate will do.

What is more than 115 and less than 125?

400

The character who demonstrated the most dramatic irony in all stories is______________ because we had an idea of a resolution.

Mrs. White from the Monkey's Paw

400

This type of writing may contain the following methods: compare and contrast, problem and solution,  and cause and effect. Hint: It starts with an "E"

What is expository writing?

500


When using writing direct quotes, use quotation marks. When a writer paraphrases, it is called an ______________ quote.

What is an indirect quote?

500

This is when the character changes over a period of time. Eventually, the character ends up becoming someone else the reader did not expect based on the character's beginning actions.

What is dramatic irony?

500

On the 8th grade team, you have at least 5 teachers. How many of those teachers are from Missouri?

What are three?

500

The company that shared the first ironic bad luck item with the White's in Monkey's Paw is called.

What is Maw and Meggins?

500

In this writing, the writing may disagree with the overall point in the last paragraph. The writing is called___________ writing and the process is called___________.

What is argumentative writing and what is counterclaim?