2024 English 8 Final Exam

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What is an opinion?

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One person's thoughts, subjective, impossible to prove to be true

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What is a fact?

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Objective and verifiable; established using evidence collected through research

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A title at the head of a page or section of a book

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Heading/Header

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Giving credit to the authors of source information is called ____ . For example: The time table of events shows that the educational instruction has changed the most in the last five years (Smith and Jones 136).

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Citations/Citing Sources

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Notes added by way of comment or explanation

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Annotations

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Starts a new paragraph or emphasizes a line of text: For example, what is needed after each paragraph or to begin new dialogue in texts.

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Indentation

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What is theme?

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The big, universal idea emphasized in a story; what the author wants the reader to know about life; themes apply to all people and situations

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What is the feeling created by the text; the reader feels the _____ when he or she reads the poem (sad, nervous, excited).

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Mood

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What is the attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character; the author wrote this story to be serious, cheerful, suspenseful, etc. is an example of the _____ of the story.

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Tone

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When a reader is aware of something that a character isn't

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Dramatic Irony