EOG Reading Vocabulary
Literacy Concepts
Text Features
Figurative Language
A Bit of Everything
100
Decide based on evidence and your own knowledge.
What is to infer?
100
The central thought or what the selection is about.
What is the main idea?
100
Give information in a visual way.
What is photos or illustrations?
100
"Raining cats and dogs" is an example.
What is an idiom?
100
Comes after a word.
What is a suffix?
200
How the selection makes you feel?
What is the mood?
200
What you think might happen.
What is a prediction?
200
Words explaining what is in the picture.
What are captions?
200
Sound words.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
What the author is good at, like figurative language.
What is author's craft?
300
The moral or lesson of a selection.
What is theme?
300
Order of events.
What is sequencing?
300
Drawings that show the basic shape of the land and other geographic features.
What are maps?
300
An example is "The wind whistled?
What is personification?
300
The perspective from which the story is told
What is point of view?
400
When you read quickly through the story looking for general information and main ideas.
What is skimming?
400
To entertain, to inform, or to persuade.
What is purpose?
400
Help readers compare information in the text; they present all kinds of data.
What are graphs?
400
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.
What is alliteration?
400
A resource for current events.
What is a newspaper?
500
A kind of writing, usually in verse using stanzas.
What is poetry?
500
Overall mood of the selection.
What is Tone?
500
Show important events in time order.
What are time lines?
500
"The bag weighs a ton" is an example of?
What is hyperbole?
500
A type of nonfiction whose purpose is to give information about the natural or social world.
What is informational text?
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