8th Grade Academic Vocabulary Set 5

a claim that something is true

• opinion

• fallacy

• factual claim

• aphorism

a metaphor that extends over several lines or an entire poem

• extended metaphor

• metaphor

• lengthy metaphor

• academic metaphor

to reach an opinion by thinking about the stated and unstated information in the text

• knowledge

• commonplace assertion

• prediction

• draw conclusion

establish the setting, identifies the characters, introduces the basic situation

• conclusion

• exposition

• conflict

• fallling action

the pattern an author uses as he organizes his ideas and provides supporting details

• linear plot

• summarize

• main idea

• organizational pattern

connections between different texts

• organizational pattern

• intertextual connections

• organizational structure

• similarities

not easily connected, clear or concise

• inference

• draw conclusion

• subtle

• subjective

to look at closely

• examine

• illustrate

• identify

• predict

form a tentative conclusion

• draw conclusion

• classify

• perception

• speculate

important

• focus

• relevant

• characterize .

• obtain