stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
ELA General Overview of Life in Class Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
ELA General Overview of Life in Class
ELA General Overview of Life in Class
25 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
90 plays
#ELA #figurativelanguage #Englishconcepts #Englishlife #7thgrade #8thgrade
Flashcards
25 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
25
Answers
1
When we use Indirect Characterization, what is the ACRONYM We use to help us.
SHADE
BAE
CUSS
STEAL
2
What is USUALLY the author's purpose in writing a fiction story?
To Persuade
To Argue
To Inform
To Entertain
3
If you had a prompt that required you to write a Narrative, what graphic organizer would u use
Web like Mindomo Organizer
Story Mountain Organizer
Problem Solution Organizer
Cause and Effect Organizer
4
What kind of figurative language is "Said is Dead?"
Idiom
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
5
In this class, what is dead?
The color red
the word said
the word bed
the verb bled
6
What does STEAL stand for?
Snocones, Tacos, Elephants, Acorns, Lions
Synonyms, Thoughts, E-Reading, Acting, Lying
Similes, Transitions, Alliteration, Lines
Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions, Looks
7
I could hug the world after making my 'A!' is an example of...
Hyperbole
Idiom
Personification
Simile
8
Which of the following is a rhetorical question?
Is that how we walk into class? Do we know the procedures?
Why did the chicken cross the road?
How would one answer an analogy?
How would you find the figurative language in the text?
9
What is an
Objective
summary?
A paraphrase of the author's words interjecting my opinion
A generalization of the author's background.
A summary that contains the author's bias and opinion.
A summary of the whole thing without my opinion
10
The message behind the author's words refers to what literary element?
Conflict
Setting
Characterization
Theme
11
Characteristics of a Biography include...
Has a moral at the end with talking animals.
Has a plot, conflict, and resolution
Someone's story written by them.
Someone's story written by someone else.
12
The author's attitude toward a subject refers to what Literary Device?
Mood
Foreshadowing
Tone
Metaphor
13
When an author pulls on your heart strings, it is an appeal to...
emotion
authority
Reason
evidence
14
What type of graphic aid is the following...
Pie Graph
Bar Graph
Timeline
Map
15
What does the word
isolation
mean? In
isolation
, without anyone, I found out who I was.
Inspired
Happy
Sad
Alone
16
Which def. of the word
Rock
is correct based on this.
I'm going to dance at the
rock
concert.
Cradling a baby in a chair.
moving one's body back and forth.
A kind of genre of music
A large stone you can pick up.
17
The connotation of the word attractive.
The desks were arranged in a pristine &
attractive
way.
Neat
Argumentative
Messy
Good-Looking
18
A characteristic of this genre has stanzas, rhyme, and repetition.
Informational
Poetry
Non Fiction
Fiction
19
The idiom "Don't throw stones when you live in a glass house" means...
Stones are dangerous as are people who throw them
Don't make fun of people when you are plagued with the same
The glass will shatter if a large stone is thrown
Don't tease people for something you know nothing about.
20
What does the idiom "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" mean in a figurative sense?
Birds of the same flock fly together
Like minds and people hang out together.
Birds of different species find each other & become friends
People of the same family do not hang out together
21
The way a writer writes and develops characters refers to what literary element?
Characterization
Setting
Theme
Plot
22
Hints of things to come refers to what literary device?
Characterization
Foreshadowing
Theme
Tone
23
What does the word
ensure
mean? I will
ensure
my students are ready.
Determine
Guarantee
Allow
Establish
24
What does paraphrase mean?
Find the Figurative Language
To summarize the Main Idea
Put the author's words in my own, but still give credit.
Find thematic ideas across text.
25
If I wanted to wear my PJ's to work, but knew I couldn't bc I would get in trouble. Conflict?
Man Vs. Nature
Man Vs. Man
Man Vs. Technology
Man Vs. Self
