Academic Vocabulary
Figurative Language
EOC Verbs
About the EOC
Miscellaneous
100

This is the main point or position an author is trying to prove in an argumentative text.

What is the author's claim?

100

This type of figurative language compares two things using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

100
To try to get a reader to accept the claim

What is advance?

100

This is the amount of questions on the EOC

What is 60 questions?

100

This is the author’s attitude toward the subject, audience, or characters.

What is tone?

200

This is the person who is telling the story

Who is the narrator

200

“The wind whispered through the trees.” This is an example of this device.

What is personification?

200

To create or build

What is develop?

200

This is the number of constructed response on the EOC

What is 4?

200

This is the overall feeling or atmosphere a reader gets from a text.

What is mood?

300

These back up the author’s claim using facts, examples, and reasoning.

What is supporting evidence?

300

This is descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

What is imagery?

300

To clarify by giving an example (multiple meanings across disciplines)

What is illustrate?

300

this is the maximum time allocated to take the EOC?

What is 240 mins or 4 hrs?

300

This refers to how a text is organized.

What is text structure?

400

To persuade, to inform, or to entertain are all examples of this.

What is the author’s purpose?

400

This is when the opposite of what you expect happens.

What is irony?

400

To improve

What is refine?

400

This accounts for 42-46% of the EOC- The largest tested category

What is Reading for Information

400

This point of view uses “he,” “she,” or “they,” and the narrator is not a character.

What is third-person?

500

A suspenseful story full of jokes is written with this purpose.

What is to entertain?

500

This type of irony occurs when the audience knows something the characters do not.

What is dramatic irony?

500

to strengthen with new or more evidence

what is to support?    

500

This is the longest time you should spend on a constructed response

what is 20 mins?

500

You should read this first before you read the text

What is the question?

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