8th Grade EOY Practice Test

What is a summary?

• Information that clarifies the main idea

• Text evidence used to prove a point

• The author’s main message

• A brief retelling of the main points of a passage

What figurative language is this?

After failing her driving test for the third time, Jenna smiled and said, “Well, aren’t I just the best driver in town!”

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Verbal Irony

It costs an arm and a leg to buy a concert ticket these days.

• Idiom

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

Guess the informational text structure that uses key words like: if/then, because, due to, as a result, and since?

• Problem and Solution

• Cause and Effect

• Descriptive Writing

• Chronological Order

Thank you for purchasing the SkySurfer 3000! Begin by inserting the included batteries into the remote. Press the power button to activate the propellers. Use the joystick to guide your drone into flight. Always launch outdoors, away from people and trees!

• Cause and Effect

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Sequence

Choose the word with a positive connotation: stench, fragrance, cheap, rotten

• Stench

• Fragrance

• Cheap

• Rotten

Choose the word with a positive connotation.

• Noisy

• Loud

• Energetic

• Yell

Active/ Passive: Our dog performed three songs during the assembly.

• Active

• Passive

Active/ Passive: Count Dracula solved the case of the missing chocolate recipe very quickly.

• Active

• Passive

Active/ Passive: The dog was washed by a robot.

• Active

• Passive