EOG Terms 1
A statement that is copied word for word from the text.
What is to cite text evidence or quote?
The feeling or attitude of the speaker toward the topic of the text.
What is tone?
Presenting reasons for or against a claim.
What is an argument?
When characters speak in the text.
What is dialogue?
The life lesson or message which can be applied to life based on the text?
What is theme?
Supporting details that prove a point.
What is evidence?
The meaning of words as used within the text.
When an author utilizes the readers' 5 senses.
What is imagery?
In a play the directions providing information regarding how a the character is to act or speak.
What are stage directions?
What the text is mostly about.
What is the central idea?
The author's reason for writing (to inform, persuade, explain, etc)
What is author's purpose?
The results of something that occurred
This type of figurative language is when an author uses repeated beginning consonant sounds in a words or phrases.
What is alliteration?
When you compare two unlike things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
The turning point in the story when the protagonist faces the conflict.
What is the climax?
The emotional or figurative meaning associated with a word.
What is connotation?
The type of text structure provides information in a sequence or specific order.
What is chronological?
The feeling the author wants the readers to have when the text.
What is the mood?
Exaggerated statements to emphasize a point.
What is a hyperbole?
The part of the story when the events escalate and build suspense leading to the climax.
What is the rising action?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
What type of figurative language is in the following sentence?
The alarm cloud buzzed loudly waking everybody up.
What is Onomatopoeia?
She has a heart of gold, always volunteering at the animal shelter. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence.
What is a metaphor?
He ran as fast as lightning while being chased by the bully. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?
What is a simile?
A type of text structure that provides a relationship between an event and its consequences.
What is cause and effect?
This sentence demonstrates which type of figurative language? The fish swam in a synchronized ballet.
What is personification?