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EOG Terms
Words commonly used on the EOG and in reading.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Main Idea | Who and what the text is mostly about. |
| Support | Gives help or assistance to the main idea or your reasoning. |
| Explain | Describe in more detail |
| Describe | Tell what someone or something is like |
| Compare | Tell how two or more things or people are alike |
| Contrast | Tell how two or more things or people are different. |
| Point of View | The opinion of an individual in a text |
| Narrator | The person telling the story |
| Speaker | The person speaking in a poem |
| Setting | The time and place that the story is taking place (location, weather, time period) |
| Infer | Using facts from the text and what you know to make a decision |
| Characters | The people/animals in a text |
| According | "As said in" |
| Analyze | Discover or reveal something after looking at it closely |
| Traits | A quality or characteristic belonging to someone or something "She is kind" or "The fox was sneaky" |