EOG Reading Vocabulary

a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group

• metaphor

• dialogue

• tone

• dialect

focus on how two things are alike

• evaluate

• contrast

• compare

• analyze

logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience

• connotation

• inference

• contrast

• characterization

a prejudice view (either for or against); a preference

• tone

• bias

• allusion

• mood

telling what you think will happen

• predict

• signify

• inference

• evaluate

a word that imitates the sound it represents

• irony

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• connation

separate something into parts to understand how all of the parts make a whole

• analyze

• summarize

• evaluate

• describe

to prove

• justify

• explain

• evaluate

• predict

reach a decision at the end

• infer

• predict

• describe

• conclude

language that is used to describe one thing in terms of something else; not to be taken literally

• connotation

• figurative language

• personification

• hinderance