8th Grade Reading

8th Grade Reading Class

(Review)

Paraphrase

• Express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken)

• Restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words

• Reword of something written or spoken by someone else.

Summary

• A brief statement or account of the main points of something.

• Read the text.

• Break the text down into sections.

• Identify the key points in each section.

• Written in your own words.

• Always shorter than the original text,

• A short overview of the main points of a text.

Multiple Choice

All of these could be a type of context clue except...

• compare and contrast

• point of view

• antonym

• definition

Multiple Choice

Forming opinions and arriving at aconclusions about your reading are examples of:

• Evaluating
• Summarizing
• Clarifiying
• Questioning

Multiple Choice

__________________ means to take notes about what you are reading

• Highlight

• Bold

• Annotate

Multiple Choice

__________________ means to take notes about what you are reading

• Highlight
• Bold
• Annotate

Multiple Choice

True or False: A summary should be long.

• True

• False

Story's Plot

• Identify the story's elements.

• Does it include exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?

• An interruption of a pattern, a turning point, or an action

• A conflict or struggle that the main character goes through.

• Exposition or background information, rising action (that which complicates the story), climax or crisis, falling action, and resolution.

• Conflict begins, things go right, things go WRONG, final victory

• Story is the timeline: the sequence of events in your narrative. The point of a plot is to support a story: to make a story come to life. The basic 'story' question is 'what happens next? ' Plot is what happens: the sequence of events inside a story.

Types of Figurative Language

Simile. A simile is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things and uses the words “like” or “as” and they are commonly used in everyday communication.

A metaphor is a statement that compares two things that are not alike.

Hyperbole.

Personification.

Synecdoche.

Onomatopoeia.

Multiple Choice

Your smile is like sunshine on a cold day.

What type of figurative language is this an example of?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron