Unit 1 Key Terms Georgia Milestones ELA 8th Grade Study Guide

Passages that are stories, dramas, or poems.

• Literary texts

• Analogy

• Genre

• Chronological Order

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.9

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

• inference

• dialogue

• tone

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

The lesson or message of a literary passage, story, novel etc.

• theme

• objective summary

• plot

• figurative

  language

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

The most important point or idea that the author is making in the passage.

• central idea /

  main idea

• resolution

• genre

• characterization

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

an overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions . (RL2)

• objective summary

• resolution

• central idea

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

refers to the way an author develops a character over the course of a text . (RL2, RL3, RL9)

• characterization

• propel the action

• plot

• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3B

where and when a story takes place, including the time of day, the season, or the location . (RL2)

• objective summary

• propel the action

• setting

• plot

The specific order of a series of events that form a story

• plot

• idiom

• central idea

• theme

Tags

CCSS.W.8.3A

the solution to the problem or the end of the main dramatic conflict . (RL3)

• resolution

• propel the action

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

refers to the exact words the characters are saying and is set off from the rest of the text with quotation marks and commas

• dialogue

• figurative

  language

• flashback

• dramatic

  irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3