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Reading EOG Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fiction | A story that is made up or not true |
| Non-Fiction | A selection that is true or factual |
| Narrative | Another name for a story |
| Eyewitness Account | A report of what a person saw with their own eyes |
| Drama | Another word for plays |
| Poetry | A text with stanzas. Lines, and rhyming words |
| Memoirs | A kind of writing that tells someone’s memories |
| Summary | A retelling of the most important parts of what was read. |
| Order Form | Something you fill out when you want to buy something. |
| Menu | A list of choices you can get at a restaurant. |
| Schedule | A list of times and activities |
| Recipe | Directions for cooking something |
| Make-believe | made up/not real |
| Biography | A story about someone’s life |
| Autobiography | When the author tells his own life story |
| Article | A non-fiction selection usually found in a newspaper or magazine. |
| Fantasy | Stories that have elements in them that could not really happen. |
| Folk Tales | Fiction stories that are based on legends. |
| Fairy Tales | Stories that involve unrealistic characters like fairies, and usually have a happy ending |
| Myths/Legend | A story passed down from generations that explain historical events |
| Diaries/Journals | A record of daily events |
| Cause | What makes something happen |
| Effect | What happens because of something. |
| Significance | A part of the story that is important |
| Impact | A dramatic or large effect on the story |
| Main Idea | What the story is mainly about. |
| Purpose | why the author wrote the passage |
| Opinion | How a person feels about something |
| Mood/Tone | The way a story makes you feel |
| Characteristics | Traits a character has |
| Fact | A statement that is true |
| Details | sentences that support the main idea that tells who, what, when, where and why |
| Influence | The effect a situation or character has on each other. |
| Information | communication of knowledge |
| To Entertain | Humor the reader (funny) |
| To Inform | To give information or facts to the reader |
| To Persuade | To get the reader to buy or do something |
| Prediction | Something you think will happen |
| Compare and Contrast | How are things alike and different |
| Sequence | The order of events |
| Inference | A special kind of guess or opinion based on facts. |
| Characters | The people or animals in the story |
| Plot | Part of the story that tells what happens. |
| Problem | Part of the Plot. Also known as the conflict |
| Resolution | When the problem in the story is fixed |
| Setting | Where and when the story takes place. |
| Synonym | Words that have the same meaning |
| Antonym | Words that have the opposite meaning |
| Multiple-Meaning Words | Words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings. |
| Prefix | The word part before the root word |
| Suffix | The word part at the end of a root word |
| Point of View | Some stories are written in the 1st person and use the word I. Others are written in the 3rd person and use the words |
| Context Clues | When you use the words or sentences around the word to find a meaning. |
| Generalization | When you make a statement based from facts |
| Theme | The message the author wants to deliver |
| Flashback | When the author suddenly interrupts the flow of the story o jump back to earlier events |
| Stereotype | An opinion that describes an entire group of people. |
| Propaganda | The facts, ideas or claims to persuade people to support a particular opinion or course of action |
| Foreshadowing | To give the reader information before it happens |
| Hyperbole | to exaggerate |
| Onomatopoeia | writing words that sound like sound |
| Bold Print | Words that are usually written darker than others |
| Subheading | Introduces the main idea of the section that follows |
| Subtitles | Usually the second title of an article. |
| Italics | Words that are written with slanting letters |
| Parenthesis | one or both of the curved marks ( ) used in writing |
| Map | Help illustrate where the story takes place |
| Graph | Helps give the reader information about a topic dealing with numbers |
| Graphic Organizer | A diagram used to help organize information from a selection |
| Illustration | A picture or drawing to add to the selection |
| Heading | Tells what the article is about |
| Foot Notes | Information given at the bottom of a selection to help the reader understand words or terms |
| Timeline | A sequence of events of a person or place in time |
| Diagram | A picture to help with the understanding of information |
| Table | The arrangement of data |
| Flow Chart | A step-by-step change of data over time. |
| Index | Located at the back of a textbook and lists each section or topic found in the book with its page number |
| Table of Contents | Located in the front of a book that lists units, chapters, stories or section in the order that they appear in the book |
| Glossary | A small dictionary in the back of a book |
| Poet | author or writer of a poem |
| Speaker | A person who reads the poem out loud |
| Stanza | A group of lines that make up a paragraph in a poem |
| Numbered Line | A group of words on one line with a number in the front |
| Ingredients | the edible materials used in cooking |
| Utensils | tools used in cooking (EX |
| Equipment | The machines used in cooking |
| Bake | To cook |
| Oven | A chamber used for cooking |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| Author’s purpose | the writer’s reason for writing (to inform, persuade, explain, etc) |
| Biography | story of a person’s life written by someone else |
| Autobiography | story of a person’s life written by that person |
| Cause and effect | when one event brings about another (event and the result) |
| Characterization | the way a writer creates and develops characters |
| Climax | the high or turning point of the story (point of highest tension) |
| Conflict | the problem or issue that is being solved in a story |
| Connotation | the interpretation of a dictionary definition |
| Context clues | using the words and phrases surrounding a word to determine its meaning |
| Denotation | a word’s dictionary definition |
| Dialect | a form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people |
| Dialogue | written conversation between two or more characters |
| Drawing conclusions | to make a judgment or arrive at a belief based on evidence, experience, or reasoning |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration for effect, not meant to be taken literally (I had a ton of homework) |
| Fable | brief tale told to illustrate a moral or teach a lesson |
| Figurative language | words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true (idiom, hyperbole, personification, simile, metaphor, etc) |
| Flashback | an interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time |
| Folktale | a story that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth |
| Foreshadowing | when a writer provides hits that suggest future events in a story |
| Genre | a category in which a work of literature is classified (fiction, nonfiction, etc) |
| Imagery | words and phrases that appeal to a reader’s senses |
| Inference | a logical guess based on facts and one’s own knowledge |
| Irony | a contrast of what is expected to happen and what actually happens |
| Legend | a story handed down from the past about a specific person, usually someone of heroic accomplishments. Usually has some historical basis that is elaborated. |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two things not using like or as |
| Mood | the feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader |
| Moral | a lesson that a story teachers-usually tied to a fable |
| Myth | a traditional story that attempts to answer basic questions about human nature, origins of the world, etc. |
| Narrative | writing that tells a story |
| Onomatopoeia | words whose sound suggest their meaning |
| Personification | giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea |
| Plot | the sequence of events that make up a story |
| First person POV | the person telling the story is part of the action (I, we, me, us) |
| Third person POV | the person telling the story was not part of the action (narrator-he, she, they, them) |
| Third person Omniscient POV | the person telling the story was not part of the action but knows the characters thoughts and feelings |
| Predicting | using what you know to guess what will happen next (must make sense) |
| Primary Source | information from someone who experienced the action |
| Secondary Source | information based on the primary source (didn’t experience it but is telling about it) |
| Prose | all forms of writing that are not in verse (poem) form |
| Repetition | using a word, phrase, etc for emphasis |
| Rhyme | words with the same sound at the end |
| Rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem |
| Simile | comparing two unlike things using like or as |
| Style | the manner of writing- how something is said rather than what is said (humorous, realistic, etc) |
| Symbol | a person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself (American flag-country/peace) |
| Theme | a message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader |
| Tone | how the author feels about a topic |
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