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.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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

• inference

• dialogue

• tone

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

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

• theme

• objective summary

• plot

• figurative

  language

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

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

• central idea /

  main idea

• resolution

• genre

• characterization

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

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.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

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

• plot

• idiom

• central idea

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

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.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

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.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3