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Mastering 8th Grade Reading: Key Literary Concepts and Definitions

This comprehensive guide is designed for 8th-grade students preparing for the Ohio Achievement Assessment in reading. It covers essential literary concepts, including exposition, climax, rising action, and resolution. Students will learn about different forms of irony, figurative language elements like similes and personification, and important writing techniques such as paraphrasing and summarizing. Each term is clearly defined with examples to enhance understanding, making it easier for students to identify these elements in texts and improve their reading comprehension skills.

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Mastering 8th Grade Reading: Key Literary Concepts and Definitions

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  1. Reading Ohio Achieve- ment Assessment 8th Grade 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

  2. Turning point in story. Decides the outcome of story

  3. What is climax?

  4. Establishes the setting and characters

  5. What is the exposition?

  6. The problem is established and steps to solve start the series of events.

  7. What is the rising action?

  8. All loose ends are ties up with the characters.

  9. What is the resolution?

  10. The series of events after the climax.

  11. What is the falling action?

  12. Saying one thing and meaning the other…..Exp. sarcasm

  13. What is verbal irony?

  14. Turns out the opposite of what is expected.

  15. What is situational irony?

  16. Occurs when we know something before the character knows

  17. What is dramatic irony?

  18. Language that creates pictures and words…. Uses senses to make a picture.

  19. What is imagery?

  20. Way of speaking that is characteristic to a particular place or region

  21. What is dialect?

  22. People, places or objects that represent meaning.

  23. What are symbols?

  24. Comparing two unlike objects using like or as

  25. What is a simile?

  26. An expression that means something different than literal meaning

  27. What is an idiom?

  28. Giving non-human objects human qualities

  29. What is personification?

  30. Restating a text in your own words

  31. What is paraphrasing?

  32. Your final thoughts and judgement about something

  33. What is a conclusion?

  34. Hints in a story. Clues in a story.

  35. What is foreshadowing?

  36. A writer’s choice that sets the tone and mood in a story.

  37. What is word choice?

  38. Means the same, spelled different

  39. What is a synonym?

  40. Opposite meaning of the word

  41. What is an antonym?

  42. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms

  43. What is a thesaurus?

  44. Referencing something famous for the readers to relate to.

  45. What is an allusion?

  46. A brief recounting of the most important ideas.

  47. What is a summary?

  48. A minor plot that relates in some way to the main story.

  49. What is a subplot?

  50. Repeated elements of the plot

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