8th ELA Semester Review

__________ is the time and place in which a plot takes place. 

• Conflict
• Character 
• Setting
• Theme

__________ is the moral or lesson the author is trying to impart or teach. 

• Theme
• Conflict
• Plot
• Climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

__________ leads up to the climax of a plot. 

• Setting
• Resolution
• Falling Action 
• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

__________ leads up to the climax of a plot. 

• Setting
• Resolution
• Falling Action 
• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

In literature, what do you call an object or "thing" that represents an idea?

• Theme
• Symbol
• Conflict
• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

In literature, what do you call an object or "thing" that represents an idea?

• Theme
• Symbol
• Conflict
• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

This is an example of

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

"Superman is a man of steel." This is an example of...

• a metaphor
• an idiom
• an oxymoron
• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

The drive to Disney World will last forever if I have to be stuck in the backseat with my pesky little sister. 

• personification
• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

What is imagery?

• language that is not mean to be literally, but meant to add richness and color to literature
• the use of vivid descriptions on figures of the speech that appeal to sensory experiences
• use of hints and clues in a narrative to suggest a future action
• type of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4