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.