EOG Words to Know

Word meaning:

What does something give or add to the text?

• contribute

• convey

• develop

Word meaning: To show or reveal

• develop

• convey

• theme

Word meaning: Tell more/explain

• elaborate

• effect

• significant

Feeling of the text

• significant

• central idea

• tone

Something it doesn’t say exactly in the text but you can figure it out by the things the characters/narrators do and say.

• tone

• inference

• develop

When there are changes in the text

• figurative language

• develop

• central idea

What happens because something else happens

• claim

• figurative language

• effect

lesson or moral (universal)

• theme

• point of view

• convey

What someone thinks and feels (how they see things)

• point of view

• effect

• contribute

What the text is mostly about (who does what or what did you learn about)

• central idea/main idea

• theme

• contribute