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Synonyms
Figurative Language
EOG Vocab 1
EOG Vocab 2
Important Terms
100
Main idea
What is the central idea?
100
A comparison using the word "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
100
A comparison between two things (starts with an "a")
What is an analogy?
100
The effect on something (hint - it starts with an "i")
What is impact?
100
The overall point of the story
What is the main idea?
200
a moral
What is the theme?
200
A comparison not using the word "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
200
When something is proved incorrect, false.
What is refuted?
200
Impersonal or without feeling, fair
What is objective?
200
The moral or lesson learned in the story
What is a theme?
300
To suggest without saying
What is imply?
300
An exaggeration used to make a point
What is hyperbole?
300
A group of words
What is a phrase?
300
To go back and make something better, more precise (hint - what is the prefix for "to go back"?)
What is refine?
300
The reason an author wrote a text
What is author's purpose?
400
A longer comparison that appears throughout an entire poem (Hint for Ms. Hillgrove's students - it was a Do-Now term last week:)!)
What is an extended metaphor?
400
Like a paragraph, but in a poem
What is a stanza?
400
When you are claiming or arguing something
What is assert?
400
To give a short version of the major points in the text, oftentimes 5-7 sentences
What is a summary?
500
A words that paint a picture in your mind
What is imagery?
500
To place extra importance on
What is to emphasize?
500
An educated guess
What is an inference?
500
The author's emotions that they bring to the text
What is the author's attitude?