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