Vocabulary Words English

The subject or topic of a text

• Context Clues

• Theme

• Inference

• Irony

The perspective of which a narrator is telling a story

• Simile

• Venn Diagram

• Text Structure

• Point of View

A struggle or opposition

• Personification

• Conflict

• Theme

• Foreshadow

An educated guess based on evidence

• Inference

• Conflict

• Theme

• Metaphor

Hints found within sentences or paragraphs that a reader can use to understand the meaning of a word

• Context clues

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Irony

An explanation of your thought process

• Reasoning

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

How information in a text is organized

• Simile

• Allusion

• Text Structure

• Venn Diagram

Giving human-like qualities to non-human objects

• Venn Diagram

• Allusion

• Personification

• Theme

The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite

• Irony

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion

A comparison of two things without using words

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Venn Diagram

• Point of View