Access Point #: ELA.8.R.2.AP.3


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Explain how an author’s use of figurative language establishes and/or achieves purpose.
Number: ELA.8.R.2.AP.3 Category: Access Points
Date Adopted or Revised: 03/22 Standard: Reading Informational Text

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Name Description
ELA.8.R.2.3: Explain how an author establishes and achieves purpose(s) through rhetorical appeals and/or figurative language.
Clarifications:
Clarification 1: Figurative language use that students will analyze are metaphor, simile, alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, hyperbole, meiosis (understatement), allusion, and idiom. Other examples can be used in instruction.

Clarification 2: Students will explain the appropriateness of appeals in achieving a purpose. In this grade level, students are using and responsible for the appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos.

Clarification 3: See Secondary Figurative Language.

Clarification 4: See Rhetorical Appeals and Rhetorical Devices.




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