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Reading EOG Voc. #2
Literary Terms found in middle school Reading EOG question stems
| Question | Answer | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| epic | a very long poem which tells a story and often tells of the great acts of heroes ( Ex. The most famous example of an ___ poem is the Illiad and the Odyssey which was written by Homer from Greece many years before Christ. | evidence | proof; i.e. something that supports a statement. (Ex. _____ that it is 65 degrees outside is the thermometer which says that that is true.) |
| subheading | a subordinate heading or title (i.e. the title of a portion of the selection, not the whole section) | ||
| alliteration | the repetition of the initial consonant sounds (Example: race run, rip, roar) | (1) stand for Ex. The symbol 1 ______ one. (2) to describe (Ex. Hitler is almost always ____ as an evil man. (3) to serve as an agent or spokesperson for other people (Ex. The Student Council ______ the students at West Lee.) | |
| author's style | the way in which an author says what he says (i.e. not what he says, but how he says it) | ||
| mood | feeling created in the reader by the selection | ||
| significance | importance (Ex. The teacher asked the students: “What is the ___________ of learning all these Language Arts words?” A student in the first row answers: “So, we can understand the question stems on the Reading EOGs.” | ||
| point of view | perspective from which a story is told (There are three _________ (Ex. : 1st person ______ means “I”, “me”,"mine", “we”, “ours” and “us”; | ||
| overstatement | exaggeration (Ex. I’m so hungry I could eat a cow!) | ||
| sarcasm | saying words you don’t mean in a cutting and humorous way (Example: A husband walks into the kitchen early in the morning. He is hung-over. The wife says, “You sure look bright and sunny this morning.”) | ||
| dialect | a special way of talking (Example of an Irish ____: “At that moment, me whole world changed an” I was never the same.”) | ||
| flashback | interruption of a story in order to talk about an event or events that happened in the past | ||
| preview | look at the title, pictures, and subheadings of a text before you read it. (The reason you ____________ a text is to get an idea about what the text is about before you read it.) |
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