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ELA 8 Final Review: Test Prep Guide

This document provides a study guide for an 8th grade ELA final exam. The exam will consist of 32 multiple choice questions based on various fiction and non-fiction passages, as well as one essay question requiring analysis of a text studied during the school year. Literary elements, techniques, and other terms that may appear on the exam are defined. The document also provides potential essay prompts on 4 novels studied during the year to help students prepare their extended response.

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ELA 8 Final Review: Test Prep Guide

This document provides a study guide for an 8th grade ELA final exam. The exam will consist of 32 multiple choice questions based on various fiction and non-fiction passages, as well as one essay question requiring analysis of a text studied during the school year. Literary elements, techniques, and other terms that may appear on the exam are defined. The document also provides potential essay prompts on 4 novels studied during the year to help students prepare their extended response.

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Name ____________________________________

Mastery ELA 8

Period _____
Final Review

Test Format:
32
-

Multiple Choice Questions


Based on a variety of fiction & non-fiction passages
Poems, Articles, Speech, & Personal Essay
All passages should be read carefully and annotated

One Extended Response Question (Essay)


- Analyze a piece of literature that we studied this school year
- You will need to use specific details form the text to support your analysis so be certain to review all
novels (Chinese Cinderella, Flowers for Algernon, The Secret Life of Bees, & Romeo and Juliet)
Literary Elements Review
Characterization:

Setting:

Freytags Pyramid (know what happens at each point)

Theme:

Conflict:

Tone:

Mood:

Literary Techniques Review


Allusion:

Hyperbole:

Imagery/Sensory Details:

Metaphor:

Oxymoron:

Personification:

Simile:

Symbol/Symbolism:

Other Terms to Review


Structure
Problem/Solution:

Chronological:

Authors Purpose:

Descriptive:

The following questions may also be tested and/or terms used:


-context clues
- main idea/central idea
-inference/analysis
-footnote
-supporting details
Essential Question
Quarter 1:

Quarter 2:

Quarter 3:

Quarter 4:

Extended Response: For the essay portion of the exam, you will need to clearly discuss the events of at least
one of the texts we have read this year. Please use the following graphic organizer to help you.

Title: Chinese Cinderella


Plot Summary:

Major Conflicts:

Protagonists Development:

Author:

Genre:

Theme:

Connection to the Essential Question:

Title: Flowers for Algernon


Plot Summary:

Major Conflicts:

Protagonists Development:

Theme:

Connection to the Essential Question:

Author:

Genre:

Title: The Secret Life of Bees

Author:

Genre:

Plot Summary:

Major Conflicts:

Protagonists Development:

Theme:

Connection to the Essential Question:

Title: Romeo and Juliet


Plot Summary:

Author:

Genre:

Major Conflicts:

Protagonists Development:

Theme:

Connection to the Essential Question:

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