Vocabulary 1 Review

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The most important idea in a piece of writing

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Main idea

Front

What supports the main idea?

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Key details

Front

Brief statement of the main points, telling the story in your own words

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Summarize

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To fully and clearly express something, leaving nothing implied

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Explicit details

Front

Understood though not plainly or directly expressed

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Implicit details

Front

Text organization in which ideas and concepts are presented in the order in which they happen

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Sequential structure

Front

A detail about a character’s physical appearance or personality

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Trait

Front

The rate the story is progressing- exciting events move in a fast pace because of the action

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Pacing

Front

Text organization in which facts and details lead to one main idea

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Part to whole structure

Front

The person or speaker telling the story

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Narrator