Reading Literary Text 8th Grade Milestones Review

To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

• infer

• summarize

• alliteration

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The lesson or message in a text

• inference

• summary

• theme

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The series of events in a story

• plot

• resolution

• conflict

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict

• plot

• theme

• characterization

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

An indirect reference to something . For example, He didn’t want to give gifts to anyone at Christmas; he was being a scrooge .

• inference

• summary

• allusion

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The use of words or expressions with a meaning that is different from their literal (exact) meaning

• figurative language

• alliteration

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When a writer describes an object as if it were a person . For example, The trees sighed in the afternoon breeze.

• alliteration

• allusion

• personification

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A direct comparison that states one thing is another. For example, He is an animal on the soccer field.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A comparison using like or as. For example, She is as pretty as a picture.

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The use of the same sound to start several words in a row . For example, The beautiful butterfly blew by the bay.

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3