PARCC Academic Vocabulary

words or phrases that has a meaning that is different from the literal meaning

• Point of View
• Figurative language
• Metaphor
• Plot

how the reader feels about the text while reading

• Mood
• Elaborate
• Claim
• Theme/central message

the sequence of events in a story

• Rhythm
• Evidence
• Plot
• Stanza

a group of lines in a poem (similar to a paragraph, but in a poem)

• main idea/central idea
• alliteration
• stanza
• evidence

a comparison of two unlike things

• simle 
• idiom
• infer
• metaphor

to provide evidence for

• support
• rhythm
• visualize
• tone

the life lesson or message that the reader can learn though the character and events in the story

• theme/central message
• simle
• point of view
• hyperbole

a common expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally

• first person
• claim
• idiom
• alliteration

the way an author feels about the subject he or she is writing about

• tone
• infer
• analyze
• hyperbole

to help understand

• evidence
• contribute
• chronological order
• rhyme