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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. |
| Line | Each line in a poem. |
| Stanza | The paragraph of poetry |
| Figurative language | A type of language that is not meant to be taken literally. |
| Metaphor | Comparing two unlike things not using like or as. |
| Simile | Comparing to unlike things using the words like or as. |
| Onomatopoeia | Sound words |
| Alliteration | the repetitive consonant sound at the beginning of words. |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration. |
| Personification | Giving non-human objects human characteristics. |
| Authors Purpose | Why is the author writing the text? Is it to inform? Entertain? Or Persuade. |
| Narrator | Person telling the story. |
| Authors Perspective | the view point of the writer. |
| Tone | The authors approach/attitude towards the text. |
| Mood | The way the reader feels when reading the text. |
| illustrate | What does text or sentence mean? |
| Imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or a likenesses of things. |
| Significance | The important of a sentence, paragraph or text. |
| inference | A conclusion based on clues, evidence and assumptions from the text. |
| Infer/ Inferred | deduce or conclude (info) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements. |
| Plot | The events of a story told in the order in which they happened. |
| Setting | when and where a story takes place. |
| Plot Development | how the plot affects a story and how it changes over time. |
| Authors point of view | first and third person point of view. |
| Context clues | Words and clues around an unfamiliar word to help find the correct meaning. |
| Convey | Make ( an idea, impression, or feeling ) |
| Conflict | character and/ or forces against each other. |
| 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 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. |
| Text Evidence | is a piece of information from a text that we use to support our ideas. |
| Quote | a quotation from a text or a speech. |
| Argument | when an author wants to convince you of their position. |
| Phrase | A group of words that relate and when combined. |
| influence | the power to make other people agree with your opinion or something you want to do. |
| statement | is a sentence that says something ture. |
| Analyze | to study something loose-fully or carefully |
| Compare/ Contrast | analyze two subjects by either comparing them, contrasting them, or both. |
| Analysis | Breaking something down in to various elements and then asking critical thinking questions as in "WHY, HOW?" |
| identify | establish or indicate who or what ( someone or something ) |
| introduction | refers to a beginning |
| repetition | when a single word or phrase is used multiple times. |
| Rhyme | the repetition of a similar sound between words or the ending of words. |
| Affect | a word which means to have an impact. |
| Heading | something that serves as a head, top, or front. a title or caption of a page. |
| 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. |
| Generalization | are statements that encompass a big idea without addressing the details. |
| Opinion | a view or judgement formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. |
| Bold print | bold print is print that is darker or brighter then the rest of the sentence. |
| italics | a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right. |
| sequence | a particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other. |
| prediction | A prediction is what someone thinks will happen. |
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