8th Grade English Vocab Review

Flashback

• A transition in a story to an earlier time, that interrupts the norma chronological order of events

• A transition in a story to an earlier time, that interrups the outcome of the stroy

• An experience that an author makes up

• The natural order of events

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Dialogue

• The series of events in a story

• When two people interact in a story

• The conversation between two or more characters in a stroy

• The lesson that a character learns in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

External Conflicts

• When two or more characters have an issue with one another

• A struggle that occurs between a character and an external force, such as another character, society, nature, or a situation

• When a character gets hurt in a story as a result of an external force

• A negative event that happens in a stroy

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.7.6

Internal conflicts

• A conflict that happens inside a specific location

• When a character has stoumach issues

• When a charcter is upset with someone or something

• Type of conflict that occurs within a character in a story

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Climax

• The most intense moment within a story, marking a turning point for the protagonist as they confront the main conflict

• All the events that happen in a story on the way to the climax

• The conclusion of the story by the resolving of conflicts between characters.

• The period of time in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Conflict

• A literary divice that compares two things using like or as

• A literary device that creates a relationship based on parallels or connections between two ideas

• A literary device that presents the struggle between two sides due to a disagreement in values, desires, motivations etc.

• When two character get mad at each other and get into a fight

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.7.6

Analogy

• A literary device that presents the struggle between two sides due to a disagreement in values, desires, motivations etc.

• A literary divice that creates a reslationship based on parallels or connections between two ideas

• The period of time in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution.

• The conclusion of the story by the resolving of conflicts between characters

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

Foreshadowing

• An interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.

• A narrative device in which suggestion or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted

• A literary device that presents the struggle between two sides due to a disagreement in values, desires, motivations etc.

• The type of conflict that occurs within a character in a story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Setting

• The time, place, and environment in which a story occurs

• The sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect.

• A central, unifying idea.

• A literary device that presents the struggle between two sides due to a disagreement in values, desires, motivations etc.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Plot

• The main subject that is being discussed or described in a piece of writing, a movie, etc.

• The sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect.

• The period of time in a story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution.

• The time, place, and environment in which a story occurs.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C