Alabama High School Graduation Exam Test Vocabulary

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Alabama High School Graduation Exam Test
Vocabulary

• Reading

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Tone

• The overall feeling, or effect created by a
  writers use of words. This feeling may be
  serious, humorous, satiric, and so on.

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Theme

• A central idea or a general
• truth dramatized or implied

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Character

• A fictional person in a story

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Plot

• The sequence of events in a story

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Point of View

• The vantage point from which the story is told.
• First personthe story is told by one of the
  characters
• Third personthe story is told by someone outside
  the story

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Narrator

• The person who is telling
• the story.

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Stanza

• Division of poetry named for the number of lines
  it contains

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Sarcasm

• The use of praise to mock someone or something
• Example Hes a real he-man.

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Satire

• Literary tone used to ridicule or make fun or a
  human vice or weakness, often with the intent of
  correcting, or changing, the subject of the
  satiric attack.

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Analyze

• To break down a problem or situation into
  separate parts or relationships

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Compare

• To use examples to show how things are similar
  and different, with the greater emphasis on
  similarities.

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Contrast

• To use examples to show how things are different
  in one or more ways

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Summarize

• To present the main points of an issue in a
  shortened form.

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Evaluate

• To make a value judgment, to give the pluses and
  minuses along with supporting evidence

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Setting

• The time and place in which
• the action of a story occurs

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Faulty Logic

• Illogical thinking or false
• arguments

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Preview

• When you preview you are
• attempting to get a general
• picture of what the
• assignment or passage is
• about.

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Cause

• The reason for an action or
• situation

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Comprehension

• Understanding what an
• author tells you directly

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Context

• The phrases and sentences
• that surround a word

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Effect

• The results of a situation or
• action

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Fact

• A statement that can be
• proved

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Figurative Language

• Words that mean something
• other than their literal
• meaning

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Inference

• A conclusion not directly
• stated but drawn from a set
• of facts or opinions

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Main Idea

• The central message of a
• passage what the passage
• is about

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Nonfiction

• Writing about real people,
• places, events, and social
• issues

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Opinion

• A statement that cannot be
• proved a statement that
• reflects an individual or
• groups interpretation of
• something

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Supporting Details

• Specific statements that
• give more information about
• the central message of a
• passage

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Textual

• Materials generally read for
• information, such as charts,
• graphs, encyclopedias,
• news, magazines, essays,
• lab manuals, and material
• found in textbooks

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Recreational

• Materials generally read for
• pleasure, such as
• magazines, poems, novels,
• and short stories

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Functional

• Materials generally read for a
• precise action, such as directions,
• maps, schedules (television, bus),
• menus (computer, restaurant),
• catalogues, instructions, and other
• material generally encountered in
• everyday life beyond the
• classroom

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Accurately

• Without error correct

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Article

• A distinct often numbered
• selection of writing

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Subheading

• Head of a subdivision as in
• an outline or passage

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Difference Between Effect and Affect

• EffectOutcome traceable to a cause
• Affectto produce a material influence upon to
  act upon

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Apparent

• Manifest to the senses or
• mind as real or true on the
• basis of evidence that may
• or may not be factually valid

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Excerpt

• A small portion from a
• passage, book, or other
• piece of writing

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Brochure

• Pamphlet or booklet
• containing descriptive or
• advertising material

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Chronologically

• Arranged in
• the order of time in which
• events happened

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Technique

• The manner in which
• technical details are
• treated or basic physical
• movements are used

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Testimonial

• A statement listing the
• benefits of someone or
• something

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Authors Viewpoint

• How an author views the
• subject about which he/she
• is writing

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Authors Purpose

• The reason an author wrote
• a passage or other piece of
• writing

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Propaganda

• Uses persuasive techniques
• to encourage people to act
• based on their emotions
• alone, instead of using solid
• reasoning.

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Narrative

• A story