L to J Language Arts 8th Grade

To restate information in your own words

• paraphrase

• mood

• parody

• drama

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

• denotation

• gerund

• connotation

• mood

To work jointly and cooperatively with others

• Suspense

• Collaborate

• Tone

• Partnership

Logical assumptions about what is not stated

• Assumption

• Inference

• Symbolism

• Interpret

Believability or trustworthiness of a source

• Synthesize

• Allusion

• Annotate

• Credibility

Take something apart to see why and how it works

• Parallelism

• Analyze

• Anecdote

• Synthesize

The ING form of a verb when it functions as a noun

• Irony

• Gerund

• Parody

• Infinitive

A writer’s attitude toward the audience and subject

• Mood

• Tone

• Genre

• Symbolism

Give the meaning or significance of something

• Interpret

• Gerund

• Recurring Theme

• Denotation

The use of anything to represent something else

• Anecdote

• Interpret

• Symbolism

• Deduction