Testing Vocabulary Practice

Inference/To Infer

• Of a literary passage: is its lesson or message

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

• Refers to where and when a story takes place, including the time of day, the season, or the

  location

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

Theme

• An overview of a passage that captures the main points but

  does not give every detail and does not include opinions

• The way an author develops a character over the course of a

  text

• Of a literary passage: is its lesson or message

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

Objective summary

• an overview of a passage that captures the main points but

  does not give every detail and does not include opinions

• the specific order of a series of events that form a story

• the most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Dialogue

• the way an author develops a character over the course of a

  text

• something that occurs in a story

• refers to the exact words the characters are saying; generally, dialogue is set off

  from the rest of the text with quotation marks and commas

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3B

Resolution

• the specific order of a series of events that form a story

• the solution to the problem or

  the end of the main dramatic conflict

• refers to where and when a story takes place, including the time of day, the season, or the

  location

Personification

• when a writer describes an object as if it were a person

• a comparison using like or as

• a quirky expression or saying that is specific to a language

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4

Metaphor

• the use of the same sound to start several words in a row

• a comparison using like or as

• a direct comparison that states one thing is another

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Allusion

• an indirect reference to something; when a writer refers to something without

  mentioning it explicitly

• is exaggeration beyond belief

• when a writer describes an object as if it were a person

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Tone

• is the order in which a series of events happened

• refers to hints in the narrative of what is to come in the plot in the future

• the attitude of an author about a subject or an audience; the author will

  choose words and language to create this and express a viewpoint in a text

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Point of view

• the perspective from which a story is told; could be told in the first, second, or third person

• the category of a text, such as fiction or nonfiction

• when the reader knows something that the characters do not know

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6