8th Grade Unit 1 Test
Study Guide
The
test will consist of a passage that students will read followed by
comprehension questions and about the story and the literary elements. There
will be words from the passage with latin roots, prefixes and suffixes to
identify. Finally, there will be a grammar portion to the test involving
correct punctuation and pronoun-antecedent agreement.
Literary
Elements
·
Plot development
(exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution) (pp. 30,37)
·
Conflict (pp.
28,51,67)
·
Sequence (pp. 67,
123)
·
Cause and Effect
(pp. 115)
·
Suspense (pp.80)
·
Foreshadow (pp.
90)
·
Flashback (pp.
66)
While
reading the plot, ask yourself the following questions:
·
What conflict do
the characters face?
·
Where does the
story take place?
Vocabuary
·
Latin Roots (pp. 121)
Grammar
·
Using correct
punctuation
·
Pronoun-Antecedent
Agreement (pp. 104)
List
of Types of Pronouns
Singular
Personal Pronouns
I Me My, Mine
You you your, yours
He, she, it him, her, it his, hers,
its
Plural
Personal Pronouns
We us Our, Ours
You You Your, Yours
They them their, theirs
Masculine Feminine Neuter
He She It
Him Her It
His Her,
Hers Its
Himself Herself Itself
Singular
Indefinite Pronouns
Anybody either neither one
Anyone everybody nobody somebody
Anything everyone no one someone
Each everything nothing something
Plural
Indefinite Pronoun
Both few many several
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