SC Ready 8th Grade ELA: Reading

This is information written in the script of a play to tell actors where to go or how to speak their lines.

Stage Directions

A _________ character does not change during the course of the action.

Static

This is the way an author expresses ideas through the use of kinds of words, literary devices, and sentence structure.

Style

This is a point of view where the author uses pronouns like he and she in telling a story.

Third Person

This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.

Tone

This is a work of literature, especially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character.

Tragedy

This is a writer's opinion or standpoint on an issue.

Viewpoint

This goes beyond the literal meanings of words to create special effects or feelings.

Figurative Language

A character in a fictional work that is never fully developed by the author is called a ___.

Flat Character

This is the general plan of organization of a written work or source of information.

Format

This is poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme, meter, or form.

Free Verse

This is forming a broad idea based on specific instances. Inductive reasoning

Generalization

This is the category or type of literature.

Genre

This is a highly compressed form of Japanese poetry that creates a brief, clear picture in order to produce an emotional reaction in the reader. It relies upon images taken from nature and on the power of suggestion. It has three lines of five, seven, and five syllables each.

Haiku

This is a subgenre of fiction. It is written to portray a time period or share information about a specific event. It is set in the past and based on real people and/or events.

Historical Fiction

This is the perspective from which a story is told or information is provided. It is the way the author lets the readers see and hear the story or information; who tells the story.

Point of View

This is the use of words that sound like the noises they describe.

Onomatopoeia

This is an end punctuation mark that indicates the end of a sentence.

Period

This is a writer's or speaker's point of view about a particular subject and is often influenced by their beliefs or by events in their lives.

Perspective

This is an arrangement of words in verse. It sometimes rhymes, and expresses facts, emotions, or ideas in a style more concentrated, imaginative and powerful than that of ordinary speech.

Poem

This is the third major type of literature in addition to drama and prose.

Poetry

This is a stylistic device where the writer repeats the same word or phrase for the purpose of emphasis.

Repetition

This is the repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words.

Rhyme

The regular pattern of rhyme found at the ends of lines in poems is called the rhyme _______.

Scheme

This is the time and place in which a literary work happens.

Setting

This is a comparison of two unlike things using the terms "like" or "as".

Simile

This is a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character who is alone on the stage.

Soliloquy

This is a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter.

Sonnet

This verb means to separate a whole into its parts and then look more closely at those parts.

Analyze

This is a brief comment delivered by an actor, which expresses the actor\'s thoughts. It is usually directed to the audience and not heard by other actors.

Aside

This is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables.

Assonance

This is whoever will be reading, listening or watching a story, text, or drama.

Audience

This is the reason for creating written work.

Author's Purpose

This is a rhymed, songlike poem that tells a story , often dealing with adventure or romance.

Ballad

This is writing that tells about imaginary characters and events.

Fiction

The key point made in a passage is called its ____ idea.

Central

This is how the author shows readers what a person in a literary selection is like; how an author creates the characters.

Characterization

These are the people or animals who take part in a literary work.

Characters

This is a method of relating how two or more elements or texts are SIMILAR.

Compare

This is a method of examining similarities and differences between two or more objects in a piece of work.

Compare And Contrast

This describes something that is complicated, difficult, or consists of interrelated parts.

Complex

This is when you use pieces of information on a subject to base your opinion or make a decision. You draw a ________.

Conclusion

Often, an antagonistic relationship called a ___ drives the plot of a story or novel.

Conflict

When we find the meaning of a word (or phrase) by looking at the words and sentences around it, we are using ____ clues.

Context

These are in the text surrounding a word and give hints for the meaning of the word. They are called ___ ___.

Context Clues

This is a method of relating how two or more elements or texts are DIFFERENT.

Contrast

This is a piece of information that is used to support a main idea.

Detail

These are the words spoken by characters in a literary work.

Dialogue

This is the writer's choice of words, including the vocabulary used, the appropriateness of the words, and the vividness of the language.

Diction

This is a play, written to be performed by actors.

Drama

A character who changes during the course of a story is called a _____ character.

Dynamic

This is the repetition of similar sounds that comes at the ends of lines of poetry.

End Rhyme

This type of poem is very long and usually relates the adventures of a legendary character or a national history. It is often passed down orally before being written.

Epic Poem

This is the use of language that appeals to the five senses--touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight.

Imagery

This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something that you already know to make sense of what you read. You make an _____.

Inference

When words within a line of poetry have the same sounds, this is called ______ _____.

Internal Rhyme

This is a point of view, in which the narrator is outside the story, reveals the thoughts of only one character, and yet refers to that character as \'he\' or \'she\'. It is called third-person _______.

Limited

This is the ordinary, usual, or exact meaning of words, phrases, or passages. It is another way of referring to the word's denotation. No figurative language and no interpretation is involved.

Literal Meaning

This is a highly musical verse that expresses the observation and feelings of a single speaker.

Lyric Poem

This is the most important idea of a reading passage or presentation.

Main Idea

This is the main means of mass communication.

Media

This is a direct comparison of two things, in which they are said to be (in some sense) the same thing.

Metaphor

This is a long, uninterrupted speech by a character in a play, story, or poem.

Monologue

A theme of a passage, story, novel, poem, or drama that readers can apply to life is called a ____.

Moral

A poem that tells a story is called a _____ poem.

Narrative

This is the teller of the story.

Narrator

This is information or a source that is free from the author's personal feelings or opinions about the subject.

Objective

The point of view where the narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of every character is called third person _________.

Omniscient

This term describes a narrator or writer who puts his or her own opinions and feelings into the description of the action in a piece of writing. It is the opposite of "objective."

Subjective

To restate briefly is to ____.

Summarize

To strengthen or prove an argument, analysis, or idea by providing facts, details, examples and other information is to ___ it.

Support

These are the facts or details that back up a main idea, theme, or thesis.

Supporting Evidence

This is the message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to convey through a literary work.

Theme

This is another way of saying "diction." This can help reveal a) the tone of the work, b) connotations of meaning, and/or c) his style of writing.

Word Choice

This is the author's or speaker's craft or style. It might be formal, informal, or even slang. Diction is a synonym.

Word Choice