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EOG Words
Figurative Language
Vocabulary
Test Taking Strategies
Anything
100
To convince someone to do something.
What is persuade?
100
Comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
To find in the passage.
What is cite?
100
When taking answering test questions based on a passage, what is the first thing you should do?
What is read the title and the questions?
100
This is important because it helps you understand the passage and keeps you from rereading it several times.
What is annotating?
200
To make an educated guess based on what you have read and what you know; to read between the lines.
What is infer?
200
A comparison without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
To examine carefully.
What is analyze?
200
You should do this while reading the passage.
What is annotate?
200
The way the reader feels while reading a selection.
What is mood?
300
To say what is going to happen next.
What is predict?
300
Giving human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
300
The perspective from which a story is told. It may be first-person, third-person, or third-person omniscient.
What is point-of-view?
300
You should underline these parts of the questions on the EOG.
What are bold words, italicized words, references to the passage, etc.?
300
The author/speaker's attitude about what he/she is writing.
What is tone?
400
A piece of information that supports a conclusion.
What is evidence?
400
Extreme Exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
400
When the writer of an article leans to one side.
What is bias?
400
True or False: I need to finish the test the same time as my friends.
What is false?
400
The sequence of events in a story. It contains the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is plot?
500
Something the author asserts or states to be true.
What is claim?
500
An expression that means something different from its literal meaning. Example: It's raining cats and dogs.
What is an idiom?
500
To judge carefully.
What is evaluate?
500
True or False: I should change my answers if I have the same answer circled three times in a row.
What is False?
500
Words that use one or more of the five senses to give the reader a mental picture.
What is imagery?