Eighth Grade Spring 2012 Final Review

Know the following terms and be able to identify and define them:

Poetry:

·         Haiku

·         Narrative poem

·         Sonnet

·         Rhyme

·         Internal rhyme

·         Personification

·         Metaphor

·         Simile

·         alliteration

·         hyperbole

·         idiom

·         stanza

·         repetition

·         refrain

Grammar & Writing:

·         verb tense: present, past, perfect (progressive & perfect)

·         participles and participial phrases

·         Know all the steps and purposes of the writing process

Persuasion:

·         Claim

·         Support

·         Counter argument

·         Persuasive techniques

·         Emotional appeal

·         Ethical appeal

·         Rhetorical fallacy

·         Logical fallacy

·         Loaded terms

·         Leading questions

·         Caricatures

·         stereotype

·         cause

·         effect

·         rhetorical question

·         repetition

·         speech

·         factual claims

·         opinions

·         common place assertions

Be familiar with the following works:

“The Weak Shall Inherit the Gym” by Rick Reilly

“The Sanctuary of School” by Lynda Barry

“Educating Sons” speech given by Chief Canasatego

“The First Americans” letter by The Grand Council Fire of American Indians

“What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” Fredrick Douglass

Fiction:

·         myths

·         folktales

·         setting

·         plot

·         conflict types

·         “The Pearl”-be familiar with plot, character motivation, and symbolism

Media:

·         Know what media is

·         Digital media

·         Assessing formality of media

·         Know how to assess the role of media

Sound & visual techniques

Seventh Grade Spring 2012 Final Review

Fiction

Know the following:

Myths:

·         Know the traits of myths

·         “Orpheus and Eurydice”

·         “Icarus and Deadalus”

·         “Phatheon, Son of Apollo”

Epic Tales:

·         Know traits of epic tales

·         “Beowulf”

Fiction:

·         What is fiction

·         “The Last Dog”

·         “The Three Century Woman”

·         “Charles”

·         Setting

·         Plot sequence

·         Conflicts

·         Character motivation

·         “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”

·         Dialogue

·         Stage directions

·         Cast of characters

·         “Clara Barton: Battlefield Nurse”

Grammar and writing:

·         They’re, there, their

·         Adverbs

·         How to write an effective summary

·         How to eliminate “to be-verbs”

·         Correct use of apostrophes

·         Proper nouns and titles

·         Steps in the writing process

Persuasion

Know the following terms:

·         Logical fallacy

·         Bandwagon

·         Factual Claim

·         Common place assertion

·         Loaded language

·         Claim

·         Opinion

·         Support

·         Rhetorical fallacy

·         Ad hominem

·         stereotyping

·         Exaggeration

·         Categorical claim

·         Testimonial

·         argument

·         Counter arguments

·         According to Aristotle, what are three fundamental appeals to convince a person?

·         Emotional fallacy

·         Ethical fallacy

·         Policy Speech

·         Kennedy’s speech

Poetry and literary language

Know the definitions and be able to find examples of the following:

·         Idiom

·         Hyperbole

·         Repetition

·         Refrain

·         Personification

·         Simile

·         Metaphor

·         Literal language

·         Figurative language