8th Grade Academic Vocabulary and Key Terms Quiz #1

Clues that explain what something is, sometimes by using and example.

• Restatement Clue

• Contrast Clue

• Definition Clue

• Inference Clue

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Clues that give another word that means close to the same thing.

• Restatement Clue

• Contrast Clue

• Definition Clue

• Inference Clue

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Clues that help you use what you know about a topic to determine meaning.

• Restatement Clue

• Contrast Clue

• Definition Clue

• Inference Clue

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Clues that present a contradiction or opposite meaning.

• Restatement Clues

• Contrast Clue

• Definition Clue

• Inference Clue

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

The reasons the author has written an article and has chosen the supporting information.

• Author's Purpose

• Claim

• Context

• Counterargument

The author's position in an argumentative text, expressing what the reader should do or believe.

• Author's Purpose

• Claim

• Context

• Counterargument

Parts of something written or spoken that precede and follow a word or phrase and clarify its meaning.

• Author's Purpose

• Claim

• Context

• Counterargument

A rhetorical strategy in writing in which the author addresses a possible objection to the author's argument, then explains why the objection is not idea.

• Author's Purpose

• Claim

• Context

• Counterargument

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Language that is not meant to be take literally.

• Figurative Language

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Genre

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A scene that takes place before the time period of the main story; a non-linear plot element.

• Figurative Language

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

• Genre

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5