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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

Author's Purpose

Claim

Point of View

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To look for differences

Effect

Cause

Contrast

Compare

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The emotion or judgement that a word expresses

Definition

Denotation

Connotation

Reference

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

Plot

Resolution

Character

Protagonist

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

Metaphor

Personification

Simile

Hyperbole

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

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

Simile

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

Simile

Hyperbole

Personification

Metaphor

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The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve

Resolution

Problem

Climax

Plot

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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)

Central Idea

Conclusion

Main Points

Thesis

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To look for similarities

Effect

Compare

Cause

Contrast

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The result of a cause

Contrast

Compare

Cause

Effect

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The dictionary definition of a word

Synonym

Antonym

Denotation

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

Exposition

Conclusion

Introduction

Beginning

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Name that tune!

Dark Horse

Last Friday Night

Roar

Firework

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Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text

Fact

Main Points

Inference

Opinion

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