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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

Text Structure

Author's Purpose

Claim

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To look for differences

Effect

Contrast

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

Character

Resolution

Protagonist

Plot

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

Hyperbole

Personification

Metaphor

Simile

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

Hyperbole

Personification

Simile

Metaphor

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

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

Simile

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The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve

Plot

Problem

Resolution

Climax

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Something that brings about an effect or a result

Compare

Effect

Cause

Contrast

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The most important idea in a text (main idea)

Central Idea

Thesis

Main Points

Conclusion

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To look for similarities

Cause

Contrast

Effect

Compare

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The result of a cause

Effect

Compare

Cause

Contrast

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The dictionary definition of a word

Denotation

Synonym

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

Conclusion

Beginning

Introduction

Exposition

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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

Main Points

Inference

Fact

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