EOG Vocabulary

What does context mean?

• The words or sentences nearby the word or phrase in question.

• Main thought or theme.

• An assertion of something to be true, typically without supporting evidence.

• To make an idea or impression known.

What does dialogue mean?

• Vivid and descriptive language.

• Comparing two unlike things.

• Written composition in which two or more characters are representing a conversation.

• The way a person speaks based on where they are from

Dialect

• Conversation between characters

• the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work

• To make an idea or impression known or understandable to someone; to show.

• The way a person speaks based on the region they are from.

What does effect mean?

• A result or consequence

• assert the opposite of a statement made by (someone).

• A set of reasons given with the intention of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.

• Make a difference to

What does emphasize mean?

• To give special importance or draw attention to something

• A thing or things helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment.

• The effect or impression of one person or thing on another.

• Writing that tells a story.

What is a metaphor?

• A comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• A comparison of two unlike things

• Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

• An extreme exaggeration.

What does infer mean?

• A result or consequence

• To cause to move forward

• To conclude from evidence or reasoning

• To bring to view, to show

Expressing your meaning with words that indicate the opposite

• Imagery

• Dialect

• Impact

• Irony

What is point of view?

• The perspective from which a story is told

• The way we speak based on where we are from

• Making an educated guess

• Comparing two unlike things

What does refer mean?

• To conclude from evidence or reasoning

• The opposite or what was expected

• To direct the attention to a specific area; to mention or allude to

• The perspective