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EOG ELA Terms
End of grade test ela terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A conclusion based on observation or evidence | Infer |
| Influencing strongly | Impact |
| Back up with details | Support |
| The process or growth of something | Development |
| To make known | Reveal |
| Tell in your own words what a passage is about including only the central idea and most important supporting details. Does not include opinions or judgement. | Summarize |
| Look for | Seek |
| To transport; to conduct; to communicate. | Convey |
| Show how things are similar | Compare |
| Find differences | Contrast |
| Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable | Whim |
| To give special attention to something, to stress | Emphasize |
| The idea the author supports with evidence and details | Author's Point |
| Not obvious | Subtle |
| The reason the author has for writing. ( Inform, persuade, express, & entertain) | Author's Purpose |
| A statement that supports a position. | Claim |
| Correctness, exactness | Accuracy |
| Obstacle | Barrier |
| The basis from which an idea or situation develops | Foundation |
| A series of actions or steps taken to achieve an end | Process |
| The kind of action or activity specific to a thing or person | Function |
| To use previous information or something already known | Refer |
| To give Add to, enhance | Contribute |
| To bring out ideas in text | Unfold Ideas |
| Someone or something that causes trouble | Troublesome |
| To be persuaded | Convince |
| Descriptive or figurative language in a literary work; the use of language to create sensory impressions. | Imagery |
| Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand | Jargon |
| Being effective without wasting time or effort or expense | Efficient |
| Decrease in size, extent, or range | Diminish |
| To explain in terms that can be more easily understood; interpret | Translate |
| Having nothing to do with the subject | Irrelevant |
| A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company | Charter |
| Arranged in an orderly way. | Organization |
| A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works | Mythology |
| Money or property that is left to you after someone passes | Inheritance |
| The plan of main story of a literary work. | Plot |
| The place and time that a story takes place. | Setting |
| The main ideas of the story. | Theme |
| The perspective from which the story is told. | Narration |
| Narration from one character's point of view. Told using pronouns "I" and "me" | First Person Narration |
| Narration from someone who can see and feel each one of the character's thoughts and emotions. | Ominicient Narration |
| The problem in the story | Conflict |
| The action in the story that results from the conflict. | Suspense |
| The highest point of dramatic tension or major turning point in the story. | Climax |
| The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning. | Verbal Irony |
| Incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result. | Situational Irony |
| When the audience or readers understand something a play or story that the actors or characters do not understand. | Dramatic Irony |
| Interruption of the plot by the interjection of events of an earlier occurrence. | Flashback |
| Representation or identification of what is to come later in the plot. | Foreshadowing |
| Give an account of similarities and differences between two (or more) items or situations, referring to both (all) of them throughout. | Compare and Contrast |
| A text structure that presents a problem and offers solutions to solve the problem. | Problem and Solution |
| Text organization that discusses the causes that led to a specific event or effect | Chonological Order |
| A method of speech organization in which the main points follow a time pattern | Cause-Effect |
| A topic, idea, person, place, or thing explained by its features, characteristics, or examples | Description Text Structure |
| a one-sentence statement that sums up the major ideas of a text. What is this text mostly about? | Central Idea |
| A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence. | Tone |
| In formation in text used to prove or disprove something. | Evidence In Text |
| Narration from someone other than the characters in the story, generally told using the pronouns, "he" "she" and "they" | Third Person Perspective |
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