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NC EOG LA Vocabulary
6th Grade Academic Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Analogy | A comparison of two sets of ideas, where the two sets are related in the same way. |
| Author's Purpose | why an author wrote something; Persuade, Inform,Entertain. |
| Characters | the people, animals, or others that are part of a story. |
| Compare | a process in which the reader looks for things that are the same. |
| Conclusion | an overall opinion the reader forms after reading a passage. |
| Conflict | a struggle a character must overcome; problem. |
| Context Clues | information from the passage that identifies the meaning of a word or group of words. |
| Contrast | a process in which the reader looks for things that are different. |
| Detail | a piece of information, usually specific, that relates to, and supports, the main idea. |
| Dialogue | spoken words between characters in a story |
| Fact | a statement that is true and can be proven. |
| Fiction | something untrue; writers use their imagination rather than facts. |
| Figurative Language | a phrase, such as simile or a metaphor, which gives added color to a piece of writing. |
| First Person--1st | the personal ("I", "WE", or "US") point of view where the narrator is a character in the story. |
| Flashback | used in a story to show memory (goes from present to past). |
| Foreshadowing | used to give hints about how the plot is going to develop. |
| Genre | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, marked by a distinctive style. |
| Graphics | things like maps, charts, and illustrations that help you understand the text. |
| Hyperole | an exaggeration |
| Illustrations | drawn pictures tha tgo along with a piece of text. |
| Imagery | language found in poetry that helps readers "see" things that are happening in the poem, words and phrases that appeal to the five senses. |
| Inference | a determination that the reader makes about something not directly stated in the passage; making an educated guess based on readers knowledge and information provided by author. |
| Literal language | language that states exactly what the author means. |
| Main idea | what a story or passage is mainly about. |
| Making Connections | text to text; text to self; text to world. |
| Metaphor | a comparison between two things that does not use the word "like" or "as". |
| Mood | the feeling a reader gets from a story. |
| Non-Fiction | true stories (biographies, autobiographies, content, some consumer). |
| Opinion | a personal belief that cannot be proven. |
| Paraphrase | to restate an idea in your own words. |
| Personification | a description of a non-human object in terms of human traits. |
| Persuasive | tending or having the power to persuade; persuasive argument. |
| Plagiarism | claiming someone else's words as your own. |
| Plot | the events that occur in a story. |
| Exposition | the introduction in a story; the beginning; a reader is introduced to characters-setting-conflict. |
| rising action | series of events that lead to the climax in a story. |
| Climax | the highest point of action in a work of literature. |
| Falling Action | series of events after the climax that wrap the story up. |
| Resolution | How the conflict in a work of literature is solved. |
| Idiom | phrases that are not meant literally (ex: it is raining cats and dogs). |
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