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Ela Final Exam Review
Ela Final Exam Review
Genres - N/F/D/P/P
1. Non-fiction (Literary Non-fiction/Informational)
a. Literary Non-fiction
i. Memoir - One memory moment in a person’s life.
ii. Autobiography - The personal account of a person’s life written by the
person.
iii. Biography - The account of a person’s life written by another person.
b. Informational
i. Main Idea
ii. Summary
iii. Facts/Opinion
iv. Text Structure
v. Author’s Purpose
2. Fiction
a. Plot - The sequence (order) of events in a story.
i. Exposition
ii. Rising Action
iii. Conflict
iv. Climax
v. Falling Action
vi. Resolution
b. Characterization - Character traits: Feelings, Actions, Saying, Thoughts,
Relationships
c. Theme - The (central) message (lesson) the author wants the reader to take
away from the story.
d. Figurative Language - Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Onamonapia,
Hyperbole
e. Sensory Language - 5 senses (touch, smell, hear, seeing, taste)
3. Drama
a. Playwright - The author of a play.
b. Cast of characters - Actors in play.
c. Dialogue (Lines) - What the characters are saying.
d. Stage Directions - Instructions given in the text of a play.
e. Plot - The sequence (order) of events in a story.
f. Characterization - Character traits: Feelings, Actions, Saying, Thoughts,
Relationships
g. Theme - The (central) message (lesson) the author wants the reader to take
away from the story.
h. Figurative Language - Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Onamonapia,
Hyperbole
i. Sensory Language - 5 senses (touch, smell, hear, seeing, taste)
4. Poetry
a. Lines
b. Stanzas - A group of lines separated by a line break
c. Figurative Language - Repetition, Rhyme Scheme (AABB, ABAB), Onamonapia,
Simile, Metaphor, Personification,Hyperbole
8th Grade ELA Final Exam Study Sheet
Poetry - S. S. I. F. T. T. and/or P. A. P.
Stanza
Lines
Line Breaks - Shift in the central message/theme
Rhyme (internal and external)
Rhyme Scheme
Rhythm
Meter
Figurative Language
Simile
Metaphor
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Extended Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole
Imagery
Repetition
Alliteration
Symbolism
Sensory Language - 5 Senses (See, Touch, Taste, Smell, Hear)
Characterization - FASTR
Character Traits (qualities)
FASTR - Feelings, Actions, Sayings, Thoughts, Relationships
Character Motives
Character Conflict (internal, external)
Protagonist
Antagonist
Text Evidence
MTT- Mark the text
Key words
Inside, Outside, Outside (vocabulary)
Signposts (word gaps, numbers and statistics, contrasts and contradictions, quote
words, absolute and extreme language)
Process of Elimination (POE)
Dictionary
Tally System - Self Monitoring Strategy
Inferences
Inside-outside-outside
Writing In The Margin (WITM) = (CCVSRQ)
Text Structure - Signal Words (text structure frame)
Summary - BME and Whole, Part, Sentence
S.N.O.T.S (Small notes on the side)
Double Bubble Thinking Map (synthesis, make connections)
TGPRSITE (mnemonic) - Tim’s Grandmother Picked Red Strawberries in the Evening
Title
Genre
Paragraph
Read or Reread
Summarize
Important Words
Text
Evidence
8th Grade ELA Final Exam Study Sheet
Sayings
Thoughts
Relationships
After
Although
As
When
While
Until
Before
Because
If
Since
BME - Beginning, Middle and End - Summary Strategy, also Whole, Part,
Sentence