6th Grade ELA Academic Vocabulary | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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PA Core English Language Arts Academic Vocabulary

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The main reason an author has for writing a text. (to explain, express, inform, or persuade)

Point of View

Claim

Author's Purpose

Text Structure

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To look for differences

Compare

Contrast

Cause

Effect

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The emotion or judgement that a word expresses

Connotation

Reference

Definition

Denotation

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A person, animal or other creature that takes part in the action of a story or poem

Protagonist

Resolution

Plot

Character

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A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

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A type of figurative language that makes a comparison without using like or as

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Personification

Simile

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A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman

Hyperbole

Personification

Simile

Metaphor

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The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve

Problem

Resolution

Plot

Climax

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Something that brings about an effect or a result

Effect

Contrast

Cause

Compare

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The most important idea in a text (main idea)

Main Points

Conclusion

Thesis

Central Idea

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To look for similarities

Effect

Contrast

Compare

Cause

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The result of a cause

Cause

Effect

Compare

Contrast

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The dictionary definition of a word

Antonym

Denotation

Synonym

Connotation

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The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved

Beginning

Exposition

Conclusion

Introduction

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Name that tune!

Last Friday Night

Firework

Roar

Dark Horse

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Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text

Opinion

Inference

Fact

Main Points

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