EOG PREP WORDS
- Prediction- tell what will happen
- Elaboration- give details
- Simile- using like or as to make comparisons
- Metaphor- making comparisons without using like or as
- Personification- give an object human characteristics
- Alliteration- same sounding words
- Dialogue- to talk, quotation marks show dialogue (Ex. “Hi,” she said.)
- Humorous- funny
- Plot- the events in the story; the problem, climax, resolution (solution)
- Climax- the turning point in the story
- Skimming- read quickly
- Flashback- to tell what has happened before
- Theme- the aim or central point of the story
- Point-of-view- how the author or character sees the events in the story
- Author’s purpose- to inform, to entertain or to persuade (the reason an author writes)
- Relevant information- information that is in the passage that is important
- Explanatory- explain; to give a reason why
- Persuasive- convince by writing or speaking
- Inferences- draw conclusion; to use clues to gather the rest of the information
- Generalizations- reach a general conclusion
- Foreshadowing- to tell what will happen in the story
- Demonstrate- to show that you know
- Summaries/summarizing- to tell what you read in a couple of sentences
- Frame- to arrange
- Parentheses- Example ( )
- Italics- Example: most, best, least, except and not
- Bold face type/bold print- important words that are written very dark
- Subheading- words that appear as subtopics
- Column- special item
- Narrator- the person telling the story
- Prop- support
- Props- pictures for a play/drama to support the scene
- Classify- put in order
- Distinguish- tell apart
- Visualize- see with words or imagination
- Exaggeration- say or write more that is true
- Myths- story about an imaginary person or thing
- Dialect- type of language in a country, region or area
- Parody- funny imitation
- Sarcasm- cutting or witty remark
- Imagery- images; figurative language
- Free verse- free poetry writing
- Arrangement- put in order
- Affect- produce an effect
- Censor- to prevent someone from saying what they would like
- Characteristics- distinguishing quality
- Compare- check for likeness or differences
- Conclusion- to decide
- Consecutive- one after the other
- Contrast- show differences
- Contribution- give or help along
- Conventionally- an accepted way of behavior
- Convey- pass on information
- Convince- cause to believe
- Describe- to tell about using words (adjectives, elaboration, metaphors, similes, etc.)
- Developed- grow; increase
- Dimensions- extent (length and/or size)
- Encounter- to come across
- Event- important happening
- Evidence- to present facts to support opinion
- Expression- make known in words
- Feature- important characteristic
- Illustration- drawings, pictures or/and graphs
- Imagine- form a mental picture
- Impression- to give someone a feeling
- Influence- to guide
- Literary type- relating to literature
- Mental pictures/images-
- Method- procedure for achieving an end
- Motivate- provide with a motive (make a person do something)
- Passage- literary selection
- Personality traits- the way a person behaves
- Potentially- something that can be actual (real)
- Priorities- what is most important
- Selection- passage
- Reaction- action or emotion caused by and directly related to another action
- Reference- resources used for research
- Reinforce- support
- Represent- a sign or symbol
- Sensory perceptions- using your senses
- Stereotype- like everyone else
- Strategy- worked out plan of action
- Supplementary- thing that adds up or makes up for a lack
- Survey- look over and examine closely
- Technique- way of accomplishing (doing) things
- Ability- skilled
- According- with evidence
- Advantages- benefits or gain
- Aesop- fables written long ago teaching a lesson
- Aids- provide help or support
- Analyzing- look closely at
- Ancient- times long ago
- Applying- put to practical use
- Article- nonfiction piece of writing
- Attitude- feeling, opinion, mood
- Attracting- drawing others
- Clue- piece of evidence that helps to solve a problem
- Competition- try to win
- Create- bring into being
- Curious- eager to lear
- Current- present; up to dat
- Dabblers- working with serious effect
- Decide- make a choice or judgment; bring to a conclusion
- Determines- decide on; establish; settle
- Differ- not the same
- Difference- unlike; disagree
- Difficult- hard to do
- Effective- strong or desired effect
- Emphasize- stress
- Enclose- include
- Especially- particularly; notably
- Evidence- outward sign; proof
- Example- model; representative sample
- Except- omit, excluding, “not”
- Excerpt- brief passage
- Experience- knowledge from doing
- Explain- make clear
- Explanation- give the reason
- Fable- story that teaches a lesson
- Fact-object truth- something that can be proven
- Failed- attempt without success
- Generating- giving facts
- Genre- types of literature
- Graphic organizer- an outline to organize thoughts/ideas
- Include- have or consider
- Information- give knowledge
- Informative- giving a lot of knowledge
- Integrating- bringing together
- Interested- keeping someone’s attention
- Interview- a meeting where someone asks questions
- Introduction- show for the first time
- Invisible- cannot be seen by the naked eye
- Knowledge- state of knowing
- Least- smallest
- Line- state of agreement
- Literature- forms/types of writings
- Medium- way of communication
- Mention- refer to
- Misleading- give wrong advice
- Modern- in the present
- Mood- state of mind/feeling
- Moral- principles of right and wrong
- Observe- to see and study
- Operates- perform work
- Opinion- belief; judgment
- Organizing- put in order
- Original- something a copy is made
- Passage- literary selection
- Poem- writing in verse
- Poet- writer of poetry
- Poetry- poems
- Probably- have a good chance of having
- Process- series of actions
- Purpose- the aim; the resolution
- Qualities- characteristics
- Quotations- what someone has said
- Quotation marks- “ "
- React- act in response to an influence
- Refer- direct or send to someone or someplace
- Referred- having directed or sent to someone or someplace
- Relate- show a connection between
- Replace- take the place of
- Research- careful investigation
- Descriptive- to describe something