Figurative Language
Reading Academic Vocabulary
Writing Academic Vocabulary
Language Academic Vocabulary
Do you DARE?
100
the dictionary definition of a word.

What is denotation?

100

the universal lesson or message an author conveys through a text.

What is theme?

100

the statement of an argument 

What is a claim?

100

comparing crunchy and creamy peanut butter in an essay is an example of which text structure?

What is compare and contrast?

100

a word that sounds like the thing its describing

What is omnomatopeia?

200

figurative language that exaggerates

What is hyperbole?

200

author's attitude toward a subject or character

What is tone?
200

the feeling that a word suggests.

What is connotation?

200

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What is parentheses?

200

fig. lang. that makes a non-human thing seem human

What is personification?

300

figurative language that means something different than its literal meaning

What is idiom?
300

words or phrases that support an analysis of the text

What is text evidence?

300

the voice of the story

narrator

300

a book that lists words and their defintions, origin, and part of speech

What is a dictionary?

300

the subject surrounding a text.

What is context?

400

fig. lang. that suggests different things are the same thing

What is metaphor?

400

the main reason an author writes a work

What is author's purpose?

400

the way in which something is presented or organized

What is format?

400

to look closely at something.

What is analyze?

400

saying the opposite of what you mean

What is verbal irony?

500

fig. lang. that uses "like" or "as" to make a comparison

What is a simile?

500

writing that is done in order of how events occur.

What is an sequential order?


500

information stated directly in a text

What is explicit details?

500

a paragraph in poetry.

What is a stanza?

500

how someone's personality is described.

What is character?

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