Reading Academic Vocabulary 3

An appeal that uses facts, statistics, percentages, charts/graphs.

• Claim
• Bias
• Logical Appeal
• Loaded language

Words that imitate sounds.

• Personification
• Onomatopoeia
• Idiom
• Imagery

Human thoughts/feelings to a nonhuman.

• Idiom
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole
• Personification

The feeling created by the text.

• Tone
• Opinion
• Mood
• Detail

Same message in different words.

• Paraphrase
• Outline
• Tone
• Inference

How the author puts together the events in a story or passage.

• Details
• Main Idea
• Organization
• Outline

A personal belief, feeling. or idea.

• Tone
• Mood
• infer
• Opinion

What a paragraph or passage is mostly about.

• Outline
• Main Idea
• Logical Appeal
• Mood

An extreme exaggeration.

• Personification
• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron

Using your prior knowledge to make a logical conclusion.

• Paraphrase
• Inference
• Outline
• Theme