8th Language Arts Unit 2 Recap

When an inanimate object or animal is given human characteristics.

• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Metaphor

A type of literature or writing

• Genre
• Connotation
• Personification
• Generalization

The leading character of a story.

• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Fiction
• Dialogue

The bad guy in a story:

• Paradox
• Protagonist
• Personification
• Antagonist

Commas are used to

• separate two independent clauses in a sentence
• separate a list
• separate a dependent clause at the beginning or end of a sentence
• all of the above

Does this sentence need a comma somewhere?
I went to the store with my friends to buy chips and then I walked with them to school.

• yes
• no

Does this sentence need a comma?
We walked to school after we bought some chips at the store.

• yes
• no

When we analyze a piece of text, either fiction or nonfiction, what's the first thing we need to do?

• Figure out the theme
• Jump to whatever questions or writing we have to do regarding the assignment
• Read and understand all the words in the text
• Look for figurative language in the text and figure out what its meaning

If an author is trying to CONVEY a message to the reader, they are trying to 

• show, or hint at an underlying meaning.
• hint at something that hasn't happened yet.
• confuse us.
• use a simile to compare two things.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.4

A paragraph in a poem is called a ________.

• poemgraph
• poetic divide
• stanza
• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5