8th Grade EOY ELA Test Review

What is the climax of a story?

• The end of the story.

• The beginning of the story.

• The turning point of the story.

• The most fun part of the story.

What is the scenario of the story?

• The people in the story.

• Where and when the story takes place.

• The problem of the story.

• The genre of the story.

What genre has stanzas and verses?

• Realistic fiction

• Informative non-fiction

• Poetry

• Biography

What is the author's "message"?

• The story that the author tells.

• The lesson that the author wants the reader to learn.

• The general feeling of the passage.

• The style or type of passage that the author writes.

In poetry, _____________ are like paragraphs in fiction and non-fiction writing.

• Lines

• Pages

• Stanzas

• Personification

Which contains a simile?

• He was a tiger jumping on his prey.

• They were louder than a rock concert.

• She was like a ninja, fighting against criminals.

• My computer has me!

What does infer mean?

• An extreme exaggeration.

• Take what you know and what you have read to come to a conclusion.

• Have a mental image of what you are reading.

• Come to a conclusion based only on your opinion.

What is a hyperbole?

• It is a saying that should not be taken literally.

• It is comparing two different things.

• It is an extreme exaggeration.

• It is a word of sound.

What does the idiom "It's raining cats and dogs: mean?

• There are too many cats and dogs in the area.

• It's raining heavily

• It's raining animals.

• It's not raining.

Images, diagrams, and graphics:

• Help the reader understand the problem in a story.

• Help the reader understand more about nonfiction text.

• Distract the reader from reading.

• Entertain readers.