Academic ELA Vocabulary

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Analyze

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Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning.

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Evaluate

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Examine and judge carefully.

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Identify

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Give the name or identifying characteristics of.

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Infer

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Conclude by reasoning.

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Generate

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Bring into existence.

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Hyperbole

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Extravagant exaggeration.

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Genre

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A kind of literary or artistic work.

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Supporting Detail

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Information that reinforces the topic sentence or main idea of a paragraph.

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Similar

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Having the same or similar characteristics.

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Author's Purpose

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The reason the author has for writing, usually to inform, persuade, or express/entertain.