exam study guide - January 2019
English 8 - Semester Exam Study Guide
Read a Scope article and answer questions:
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
Point of view
Theme
Their, there, and they’re
Than vs. then
Dialogue
Capitalization
Imply vs. infer
Inference
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
- Vocabulary
- Key ideas and details
- Central idea
- Text evidence
- Inference
- Synthesis (use both articles to draw a conclustion)
- What is it
- How do you start
- What is included in the introduction
- How are they organized
- Dialogue
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
Point of view
Theme
Their, there, and they’re
Than vs. then
Dialogue
Capitalization
Imply vs. infer
Inference