1. The Critical Nouns and Their Definitions
Critical Vocabulary of the Common Core

2. Alliteration:
Words in a row with the same initial consonant sound.

3. Analogy:
A similarity between like features of two things.

4. Argument:
A reason or set of reasons that something is true.

5. Central Idea
Most important point the author makes.

6. Conclusions:
Summing up of an argument or text.

7. Connections:
Relating what you read to something else you know.

8. Connotative Language
The association that a word brings to mind.

9. Details
Isolated facts that support ideas.

10. Evidence
Knowledge on which to base a belief.

11. Figurative Language
Figures of speech used to make meaning clearer.