8th Grade Unit 1 ELA Vocab Quiz

a character, symbol, story pattern, or other element that is common to human experience across cultures and that occurs frequently in literature, myth, and folklore

• allegory

• archetype

• anecdote

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

the character who opposes or struggles against the main character

• antagonist

• protagonist

• foil

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures; imagery is created by details that appeal to one or more of the five senses

• diction

• imagery

• tone

• connotation

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

the central character in a work of literature, the one who is involved in the main conflict in the plot

• protagonist

• antagonist

• archetype

• foil

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

the time and the place in which a narrative occurs

• mood

• tone

• climax

• setting

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

a type of writing that tells a story or describes a sequence of events in an incident

• exposition

• rising action

• narrative

• allegory

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

the perspective from which a story is told.

• point of view

• connotation

• denotation

• mood

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

the teller is a character in the story telling what he or she sees or knows.

• second person point of view

• first person point of view

• third person point of view

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the narrator is someone outside of the story.

• first person point of view

• second person point of view

• third person point of view

• none of these

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

events that give a reader background information needed to understand a story

• expostion

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C