8 ELA Summative Review

compares something to another, very different thing; is not meant to be understood literally

telling what happens in your own words

a metaphor in which the comparison is developed in a number of ways

The message, opinion, or insight that is the focus or key concept is called the

literary device that hints at or alludes to what will happen in the future/future plot developments

Develops the main idea

Writing that uses descriptive language to appeal to the sense

struggle between opposing forces

when a character struggles against an outside force

Struggle that takes place in a character’s mind

the accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them are repeated

pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem

an account of a person’s life written by that person