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

Text Structure

Claim

Author's Purpose

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To look for differences

Compare

Effect

Cause

Contrast

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The emotion or judgement that a word expresses

Definition

Reference

Denotation

Connotation

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

Character

Resolution

Plot

Protagonist

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

Personification

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Simile

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

Hyperbole

Personification

Metaphor

Simile

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

Simile

Personification

Metaphor

Hyperbole

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The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve

Plot

Resolution

Climax

Problem

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Something that brings about an effect or a result

Effect

Contrast

Compare

Cause

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The most important idea in a text (main idea)

Thesis

Central Idea

Conclusion

Main Points

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To look for similarities

Contrast

Cause

Compare

Effect

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The result of a cause

Compare

Contrast

Effect

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

Introduction

Conclusion

Beginning

Exposition

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Name that tune!

Firework

Dark Horse

Roar

Last Friday Night

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Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text

Fact

Main Points

Inference

Opinion

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