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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)

Text Structure

Claim

Author's Purpose

Point of View

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To look for differences

Contrast

Effect

Cause

Compare

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The emotion or judgement that a word expresses

Definition

Reference

Connotation

Denotation

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

Resolution

Character

Plot

Protagonist

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

Metaphor

Simile

Personification

Hyperbole

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

Personification

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Simile

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

Personification

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Simile

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The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve

Climax

Resolution

Plot

Problem

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Something that brings about an effect or a result

Cause

Effect

Contrast

Compare

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The most important idea in a text (main idea)

Main Points

Central Idea

Conclusion

Thesis

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To look for similarities

Compare

Cause

Contrast

Effect

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The result of a cause

Contrast

Effect

Compare

Cause

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The dictionary definition of a word

Synonym

Denotation

Connotation

Antonym

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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

Conclusion

Exposition

Introduction

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Name that tune!

Roar

Dark Horse

Last Friday Night

Firework

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Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text

Main Points

Fact

Inference

Opinion

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