8th GRADE ELA EOG TERMS REVIEW

Point of view where the author speaks directly to the audience.

Example: It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing coats.

Something that is not important to the story.

Central Idea

The reason an author writes a piece of literature.

Show how two things are different.

Example: As cute as a button.

A statement of 'truth.'

When two characters speak to one another in a piece of literature.

Example: A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.

A character that recounts the events of a novel.

Sentences that support the main idea of a piece of literature.

The author's attitude.

The feeling created by the author's diction.

The feeling created by the setting of a piece of literature.

Example: The lightning danced across the sky.

A scene in the novel set in a time earlier than the main story.

Example: Chocolate was her Achilles’ heel.

Think carefully about.

The narrator of a piece of poetry.

The main character of a piece of literature.

Conclude from evidence or reasoning.

The key to success is?

Reveal definition.

To figure out.

Give special importance to.

Example: Seriously Funny

Theme

Show how two or more things are similar.

Point of view that uses he, him, she, her, they, them.

Author's choice of words.

Example: BOOM!

Example: "While I pondered weak and weary."

Internal Conflict

Visually descriptive language.

External Conflict

Convey Definition

The purpose of details is to give the main idea _______________.

Not enough.

Point of view that uses I, me, my, us, we