8th Grade ELA STAAR Review - Academic Vocabulary

This character changes as a result of the story's events.

• flat

• protaganist

• static

• dynamic

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

The qualities that define a character.

• character traits

• theme

• conflict

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

The pattern of end rhyme in a poem.

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• imperfect rhyme

• rhyme scheme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

When the narrator is also a character in the story. This narrator is unreliable.

• 1st person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person objective

• 2nd person

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A poem that expresses the feelings and emotions of the poem's speaker.

• sonnet poem

• epic poem

• narrative poem

• lyric poem

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

To put something in your own words

• summarize

• paraphrase

• thesis

• details

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Using emotionally charged words to cloud thinking.

• loaded terms

• false assumption

• logical fallacy

• cry baby appeal

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Part of the script of a play that tells the actors how they are to move or to speak their lines.

• dialogue

• stage directions

• moving lines

• directions

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

The writer's position on a problem or issue.

• opinion

• premise

• claim

• loaded term

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Using facts, reasons and evidence to back up one's position to persuade.

• ethical appeal

• logical appeal

• emotional appeal

• fact appeal

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RI.9-10.5