exam study guide - January 2019

​English 8 - Semester Exam Study Guide
 
Read a Scope article and answer questions:

• Central idea
• Which line does not support central idea
• Text structure
• Which line not included in a summary
• Meaning of vocabulary word
• Identify author’s purpose

Read Paired Texts (two Scope Articles) and answer questions:

• Vocabulary
• Key ideas and details
• Central idea
• Text evidence
• Inference
• Synthesis (use both articles to draw a conclustion)

Narrative writing questions:

• What is it
• How do you start
• What is included in the introduction
• How are they organized
• Dialogue

Plot pyramid – know all parts and their definitions
Plot
Claim
Commentary
Trusted sources
Protagonist vs. antagonist
Static vs. dynamic
Internal vs. external conflict
Fiction vs. nonfiction
Biography vs. autobiography
Identify various pieces of figurative language

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Allusion
• Foreshadowing
• Flashback
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Imagery
• Irony

Tone vs. mood
Point of view
Theme
Their, there, and they’re
Than vs. then
Dialogue
Capitalization
Imply vs. infer
Inference