8th Grade Language Arts Terms

A type of literature or writing

• Genre
• Connotation
• Personification
• Generalization

When an inanimate object or animal is given human characteristics.

• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

A play on words

• Genre
• Pun
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The feelings associated with a word

• Denotation
• Narration
• Connotation
• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

Words spoken to God or to oneself in a story.

• Dialogue
• Soliloquy
• Antagonist
• Narration

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.W.7.3B

When a story relives a previous moment, like a memory, dream, etc

• Flashback
• Narration
• Flash forward 
• Falling action

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.3B

CCSS.W.7.3C

The bad guy

• Paradox
• Protagonist
• Personification
• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

An expression that does not have a literal meaning. Ex: It's raining cats and dogs.

• Pun
• Idiom
• Antagonist
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4

When a character is fighting against his/her hopes and dreams.

• Rising action
• Falling action
• Internal conflict
• External conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

A statement that seems true and not true at the same time. Ex: Everything I say is a lie.

• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Connotation
• Paradox

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5A