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Reading EOG Vocab
Question | Answer |
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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 |