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Grade 8 exams prep
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nouns | naming words for a language |
| proper noun | starts with a capital letter |
| common noun | does not mean anything specifc |
| verbs | tells an action or a state of being |
| action verb | tell us something is happening, going to happen or already happened |
| linking verb | express a state of being |
| adjective | a word taht modifies or describes a noun or pronoun |
| pronoun | replaces the noun |
| cunjunction | joining words that connect words or a group of words |
| co-ordinating cunjunction | joins the same structures |
| preposition | a word that shows relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word |
| adverb | a modifier that describes a verb, an adjective, or another adverb |
| interjection | a word or a groups that show strong feelings or sudden emotion |
| imperative sentences | commanding sentence |
| declarative sentences | a statement sentence |
| exclamatory sentences | emotion |
| interrogative sentences | a question sentence |
| descriptive writing | portrays people, places, things, moments and theories, lots of detail using the 5 sentences and do not use first person |
| expository writing | to explain to aquire your reader with a body of knowledge like a mini essay |
| narrative writing | a mini story that have devices of a story |
| persuasive writing | giving your point of veiw or opinion of a topic |
| introduction | introducing the setting and characters |
| conflict | the clash of opposing forces |
| the 5 types of conflict | man v.s. man man v.s. nature/enviroment man v.s. himself man v.s. society man v.s. supernatural |
| inciting incident | the point of action that begins the main or central conflict |
| rising action | incidents, events or actions that lead to the climax |
| climax | the point where we learn whether or not the character will fail or succeed agains the conflict |
| falling action | all conflicts start to end, begins to wrap up the plot |
| conclusion | the winding up of the story |
| protagonist | the main character who must overcome obstacles |
| antoganists | the person or force that opposes the protogonist |
| flat character | two dimensional characters that dont have depth or complexion of a person |
| round character | characters that seem complex and reveal many traits and appear life-like |
| static character | characters who seem the same and do not grow despite expieriencing events |
| developing character | characterws who undergo permanent change in some aspect of personality or outlook |
| theme | the central idea of the story or what the author want the reader to learn |
| mood | the emotional atmosphere of the story |
| foreshadowing | occurs when authors gives readers hints of what will happen later on in the story |
| irony | the opposing of what is thought to happen |
| dialogue | converstation between character |
| monologue | a long talk during a story |
| alussion | a direct or indirect reference o a familiar place, figure, or event from history |
| dilema | a situation where a character must make a difficult choice or dicetion |
| simile | a figure of speech in which things are compared using words "like" or "as" |
| personification | a figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities |
| alliteration | repitition of words with the same beginning sounds |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which those things are compared stating that one thing is another |
| onomatopeia | words taht sound like the object or action they refer to |
| concrete poems | poetry in which shape or appearence of the poem contributes to the meaning |
| picture poem | poem that creates an actual image or form on page usually dire |
| ballad poetry | narrative which is often sung with music |
| haiku | form of japenese poetry with 5,7,5 syllables |
| lyric poetry | a short poem where the speaker has intense personal emotion |
| descriptive poetry | involves the 5 sences |
| hyperbole | purpisful exageration to create a specific effect |
| ambeguity | the condition of admitting 2 or more meanings to a word or idea |
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