EOG Vocabulary

comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem

• meatphor
• simile
• extended metaphor
• allusion

quotes or ideas from the text that supports your ideas

• objective summary
• textual evidence
• central idea
• inferences

the message about life or human nature in a story or poem

• central idea
• theme
• cliche
• claim

when that audience/reader knows something the character does not

• situational irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• humor

what the article or story is about (ie. 5Ws and H or ISWBST)

• theme
• objective summary
• central idea
• claim

the author's attitude towards a subject

• tone
• connotation
• denotation
• irony

a shorter retelling of an article or story without personal feeling included

• central idea
• theme
• objective summary
• inference

a conclusion or opinion that is formed based on known facts and/or evidence

• inference
• claim
• central idea
• theme

to state or say something is true when others may say it is not true

• central idea
• theme
• claim
• textual evidence

a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, mythology, etc..

• metaphor
• simile
• extended metaphor
• allusion