Critical Nouns and Their Definitions - PSSAs

Alliteration

• Words in a row with the same initial consonant sound

• Association of words

• Isolated facts

• A mutual action

Analogy

• Summing up an argument

• Words in a row

• A similarity between like features of two things

• A set of reasons

Argument

• Organization of a text

• A direct comparison using like or as

• Isolated facts that support ideas

• A reason or set of reasons that something is true

Central Idea

• Organization of a text

• Most important point the author makes

• Summing up of an argument

• Isolated facts and ideas

Conclusions

• A comparison

• Summing up of an argument or text

• Knowledge of a based belief

• The art of writing

Connections

• Associations between words

• Summing up an argument

• Relating what you read to something else you know

• Visual material used to clarify

Connotative Language

• A mutual or reciprocal action

• direct comparison

• The association that a word brings to mind

• organization of a text

Details

• Isolated facts that support ideas

• Figures of speech

• Similarities and differences

• Most important point

Evidence

• A reason or set of reasons

• summing up an argument

• Knowledge on which to base a belief

• Figures of speech

Figures of speech used to make meaning clearer

• Illustrations

• Figurative Language

• Argument

• Central Idea