Alabama High School Graduation Exam Test Vocabulary

1. Alabama High School Graduation Exam Test Vocabulary Reading Julie Mullins-Turner

2. Tone The overall feeling, or effect created by a writer’s use of words. This feeling may be serious, humorous, satiric, and so on. Julie Mullins-Turner

3. Theme A central idea or a general truth dramatized or implied Julie Mullins-Turner

4. Character A fictional person in a story Julie Mullins-Turner

5. Plot The sequence of events in a story Julie Mullins-Turner

6. Point of View The vantage point from which the story is told. • First person—the story is told by one of the characters • Third person—the story is told by someone outside the story Julie Mullins-Turner

7. Narrator The person who is telling the story. Julie Mullins-Turner

8. Stanza Division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains Julie Mullins-Turner

9. Sarcasm The use of praise to mock someone or something Example: “He’s a real he-man.” Julie Mullins-Turner

10. 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. Julie Mullins-Turner

11. Analyze To break down a problem or situation into separate parts or relationships Julie Mullins-Turner

12. Compare To use examples to show how things are similar and different, with the greater emphasis on similarities. Julie Mullins-Turner

13. Contrast To use examples to show how things are different in one or more ways Julie Mullins-Turner

14. Summarize To present the main points of an issue in a shortened form. Julie Mullins-Turner

15. Evaluate To make a value judgment, to give the pluses and minuses along with supporting evidence Julie Mullins-Turner

16. Setting The time and place in which the action of a story occurs Julie Mullins-Turner

17. Faulty Logic Illogical thinking or false arguments Julie Mullins-Turner

18. Preview When you preview you are attempting to get a general picture of what the assignment or passage is about. Julie Mullins-Turner

19. Cause The reason for an action or situation Julie Mullins-Turner

20. Comprehension Understanding what an author tells you directly Julie Mullins-Turner

21. Context The phrases and sentences that surround a word Julie Mullins-Turner

22. Effect The results of a situation or action Julie Mullins-Turner

23. Fact A statement that can be proved Julie Mullins-Turner

24. Figurative Language Words that mean something other than their literal meaning Julie Mullins-Turner

25. Inference A conclusion not directly stated but drawn from a set of facts or opinions Julie Mullins-Turner

26. Main Idea The central message of a passage; what the passage is about Julie Mullins-Turner

27. Nonfiction Writing about real people, places, events, and social issues Julie Mullins-Turner

28. Opinion A statement that cannot be proved; a statement that reflects an individual or group’s interpretation of something Julie Mullins-Turner

29. Supporting Details Specific statements that give more information about the central message of a passage Julie Mullins-Turner

30. Textual Materials generally read for information, such as charts, graphs, encyclopedias, news, magazines, essays, lab manuals, and material found in textbooks Julie Mullins-Turner

31. Recreational Materials generally read for pleasure, such as magazines, poems, novels, and short stories Julie Mullins-Turner

32. 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 Julie Mullins-Turner

33. Accurately Without error; correct Julie Mullins-Turner

34. Article A distinct often numbered selection of writing Julie Mullins-Turner

35. Subheading Head of a subdivision as in an outline or passage Julie Mullins-Turner

36. Difference Between Effect and Affect Effect—Outcome traceable to a cause Affect—to produce a material influence upon; to act upon Julie Mullins-Turner

37. Apparent Manifest to the senses or mind as real or true on the basis of evidence that may or may not be factually valid Julie Mullins-Turner

38. Excerpt A small portion from a passage, book, or other piece of writing Julie Mullins-Turner

39. Brochure Pamphlet or booklet containing descriptive or advertising material Julie Mullins-Turner

40. Chronologically Arranged in the order of time in which events happened Julie Mullins-Turner

41. Technique The manner in which technical details are treated or basic physical movements are used Julie Mullins-Turner

42. Testimonial A statement listing the benefits of someone or something Julie Mullins-Turner

43. Author’s Viewpoint How an author views the subject about which he/she is writing Julie Mullins-Turner

44. Author’s Purpose The reason an author wrote a passage or other piece of writing Julie Mullins-Turner

45. Propaganda Uses persuasive techniques to encourage people to act based on their emotions alone, instead of using solid reasoning. Julie Mullins-Turner

46. Narrative A story Julie Mullins-Turner