Test Prep Vocabulary

What a word means, as listed in the dictionary. Some words, like "bat" have more than one.

• Definition

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Character Traits

Word that means to tell how two things are the same.

• Conflict

• Compare

• Summarize

• Conclusion

To condense a story or article by writing only about the most important events.

• Narrator

• Compare

• Resolution

• Summarize

A word that means the same as another word.

• Antonym

• Synonym

• Metaphor

• Simile

The word that means the speaker in a story.

• Narrator

• Author's Purpose

• Subheadings

• Character Traits

Words that tell what a character is like, for example-brave, honest, kind.

• Resolution

• Narrator

• Evidence

• Character Traits

A comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as", such as "the students were a whirlwind in the hall."

• Antonym

• Synonym

• Metaphor

• Simile

To find quotes in the text and write them with quotation marks to support an answer.

• Evidence

• Cite Evidence

• Definition

• Subheadings

The feelings a reader gets from the text- such as gloomy or suspenseful.

• Mood

• Theme

• Setting

• Definition

"Thesis" means...

• The author's attitude

• To reference or to note a source of information

• Something that is able to produce a certain goal

• A statement or premise supported by arguments or argument