8th Grade EOG Vocabulary Review

a word or phrase that means something other than its dictionary definition, such as a simile, an idiom, a metaphor, personification

• figurative language

• allusion

• imagery

• characterization

the way a writer reveals a character's personality - through the character's words and behavior, descriptions of the character's appearance, descriptions of the character's thoughts and feelings, and comments made about the character by the others in the story

• imagery

• author's purpose

• characterization

• humor

a statement of opinion

• mood

• irony

• claim

• climax

the point in a story that creates the greatest suspense or interest

• resolution

• rising action

• setting

• climax

to look for similarities

• evaluate

• compare

• effect

• contrast

a decision the reader makes about all or part of a passage, based on information from the text, inferences, and prior knowledge

the end of a piece of writing that sums up the text's main points and often leaves the reader with something to think about

• tone

• answer

• introduction

• conclusion

the emotion or attitude that a word expresses

• denotation

• connotation

• definition

• inference

a word or phrase near an unknown word that can help the reader determine the unknown word's meaning

• opinion

• plot

• context clue

• introduction

the dictionary definition of a word

• denotation

• connotation

• idiom

• inference

the words that characters speak in a text; a conversation between characters in a text

• facts

• claim

• summary

• dialogue