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EOG Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Central Idea | The main idea of the text you are reading. |
| Theme | What is the overall message the author is trying to demonstrate? Ex: Love, friendship, working together is better than working alone (Westing Games) |
| Line | Each line in a poem (Number all the lines if they aren’t numbered for you). |
| Stanza | The paragraph of poetry. A question may ask you to look back at stanza #3. |
| Figurative Language | A type of language that is not meant to be taken literally. |
| Metaphor | comparing two unlike things not using like or as. Clue words: is and are |
| Simile | comparing two unlike things using like or as. |
| Onomatopoeia | Sound words. Ex: Boom! |
| Alliteration | The repetitive consonant sound at the beginning of words. |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration |
| Personification | Giving non-human objects human characteristics. |
| Author’s Purpose | Why is the author writing the text? Is it to inform? Entertain? Or Persuade? |
| Narrator | Person telling the story. The point of view the story is coming through. |
| Author’s Perspective | the viewpoint of the writer |
| Tone | The author’s approach/attitude towards the text. Is it informative? Silly? Playful? Serious? |
| Mood | The way the reader feels when reading the text. It creates emotion for the reader. |
| Illustrate | What does text or sentence mean? What can you picture after reading? |
| Imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively. (When an author describes something so well you can picture it in your mind). Images related to the 5 senses. |
| Significance | The importance of a sentence, paragraph or text. |
| Inference | A conclusion based on clues, evidence and assumptions from the text. |
| Infer/Inferred | deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements. |
| Plot | The events of a story told in the order in which they happen. Includes rising exposition, rising action, climax, fall action and resolution |
| Setting | When and where a story takes place |
| Plot Development | How the plot affects the story and how it changes over time. |
| Author’s Point of View | First and third person point of view. First = I, Me, Mine -Third = He, she, her |
| Context Clues | Words and clues around an unfamiliar word to help find the correct meaning |
| Convey | make (an idea, impression, or feeling) known or understandable to someone. |
| Conflict | characters and/or forces against each other; causing a problem |
| Dialogue | conversation between people |
| Flashback | a transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal sequence of events. |
| Foreshadowing | the acts of providing clues to what will happen |
| Analyze | break something down into its parts |
| Interpret | how you understand a text meaning or significance |
| Summarize | retell the essential details of what happened |
| Essential | must have, important |
| Imply | to suggest based on what the text says |
| Annotate | add notes to a text, giving explanation or comment. (Highlighting titles, underlining unfamiliar words, subtitles, headings). |
| Text Evidence | is a piece of information from a text that we use to support our ideas, beliefs, opinions, and arguments |
| Quote | a quotation from a text or speech. “A quote is normally italicized.” -Mrs. Pruyn |
| Argument | when an author wants to convince you of their position. “This is my position; you should share this position, and here is why.” Arguments are supported by reasons, evidence, examples. |
| Phrase | a group of words that relate and when combined, modify or enhance another word in a sentence. A phrase is not a sentence and cannot stand on its own because it cannot contain and complete subject and predicate. |
| Influence | the power to make other people agree with your opinions or do what you want. |
| Statement | is a sentence that says something is true. |
| Analyze | to study something lose-fully/carefully |
| Compare/Contrast | Is to analyze two subjects by either comparing them, contrasting them, or both. The purpose of writing a comparison or contrast essay is not to state the obvious but rather to illuminate subtle differences or unexpected similarities between two subjects. |
| Analysis | breaking something down into its various elements and then asking critical thinking questions such as WHY and HOW in order to reach some conclusions of your own |
| Identify | establish or indicate who or what (someone or something) is. |
| Introduction | refers to a beginning — maybe presenting someone new to a group, or inserting a new idea into a project. In a piece of writing, the introduction makes clear to the reader the text's purpose. |
| Repetition | when a single word or phrase is used multiple times in short succession for effect. It can help emphasize a point |
| Rhyme | the repetition of a similar sound between words or the ending of words, particularly when used at the end of lines of poetry, songs, or plays in verse. |
| Affect | a word which means to have an impact, or effect, on something else |
| Heading | something that serves as a head, top, or front. a title or caption of a page, chapter, etc. |
| Subheading | a mini-headline given to a subsection or paragraph within a main piece of writing. |
| Resolution | the final part of a story's plot structure. The plot structure is divided between the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. In literary works, a resolution in the plot occurs when the conflict is resolved and loose end have b |
| Generalization | are statements that encompass a big idea without addressing the details. |
| Opinion | a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. |
| Bold Print | Bold print is print that is darker or brighter than the rest of the sentence. Authors use bold print to signal important information or new words. |
| Italics | a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information, etc.: These words are in italic type. |
| Sequence | a particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other. |
| Prediction | A prediction is what someone thinks will happen. A prediction is a forecast, but not only about the weather. Pre means “before” and diction has to do with talking. So a prediction is a statement about the future. It's a guess, sometimes based on facts or |
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