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Academic Vocabulary

TermDefinition
Affect To cause a change in something.
Analyze To study something carefully to understand it.
Annotate To add notes or comments to a text.
Author The person who wrote the text.
Author's purpose The reason the author wrote the text (inform, persuade, entertain).
Central idea The most important idea about the topic of a text.
Change To make something different.
Character A person, animal, or being in a story.
Challenges Difficulties or problems to overcome.
Citation A note that shows where information came from (like the author and page number).
Climax The most exciting or important part of the story.
Combine To bring ideas or details together.
Compare To tell how things are alike.
Contribute To add or help bring about something.
Context clues Words or sentences around a word that help you figure out its meaning.
Contrast To tell how things are different.
Cope To deal with something difficult.
Describe To tell what something is like using words.
Detail A small piece of information or fact.
Differ To be different.
Difference How two or more things are not the same.
Effect The result of something happening.
Elaborate To add more details or explain more clearly.
Emphasize Highlight as important.
Endure To keep going even when things are hard.
Essay A short piece of writing about one main topic.
Event Something that happens.
Extended constructed response A longer written answer that explains with evidence and details.
Falling action Events after the climax that lead to the resolution.
Fiction A story made up by the author; not true.
Figurative language Words that create images or comparisons beyond the literal meaning.
First person point of view When the narrator is a character using “I” or “we.”
Historical fiction A made-up story that takes place in the past with real historical details.
Identify To find or name something.
Idiom A phrase that means something different than the words say (ex: “raining cats and dogs”).
Illustrate Explain with examples or pictures.
Imagery Words that appeal to the senses to create a mental picture.
Informational A text that gives facts about a topic.
Infer Use clues from the text and what you already know to figure something out.
Main idea What the text is mostly about.
Mood The feeling a story gives the reader (happy, scary, sad).
Negative Tone Showing a bad or unhappy feeling.
Neutral Tone Not good or bad; in the middle.
Nonfiction Writing that gives facts about real people, places, or events.
Persuade Convince.
Plot The sequence of events in a story.
Point of view The perspective from which a story is told.
Poet A person who writes poetry.
Poetry Writing that uses rhythm, rhyme, or vivid language to express ideas or feelings.
Positive Tone Showing a good or happy feeling.
Quotation Exact words from a text or speaker, shown with quotation marks.
Reaction A response to something that happens.
Reader A person who reads the text.
Relevant Closely connected to the topic.
Resolution The way the problem is solved at the end of a story.
Respond To answer or react to something.
Response The answer or reaction that you give.
Reveal To show or make something known.
Revision Changing ideas or details in writing to make it clearer or stronger.
Rising action Events that build up to the most exciting part of the story.
Second person point of view When the narrator speaks to “you.”
Setting The time and place of a story.
Short constructed response A short written answer with evidence from the text.
Significance Why something is important.
Similar Almost the same.
Speaker A person telling the story.
Stanza A group of lines in a poem.
Summarize To briefly tell the main points of a story or text.
Supporting detail A fact or example that helps explain the main idea.
Text feature Parts of a text like headings, captions, or charts that help readers.
Third person point of view When the narrator tells the story about “he,” “she,” or “they.”
Tone The author’s attitude or feeling in the text.
Transformation A big change in form or character.
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