Academic Vocabulary Quiz

Categories of books.

• genre

• theme

• point of view

To make a brief statement that presents only the main ideas or important details of a text.

• summarize

• main idea

• plot

The perspective from which a story is told, either from a narrator outside the story or a character in the story (1st or 3rd person).

• analyze

• setting

• point of view

The central message of a story; a general statement abaout humans or life being made.

• setting

• plot

• theme

Author's reason for writing.

• compare and contrast

• author's purpose

• predict

The sequence of events in a story.

• setting

• plot

• theme

All the details of time and place in the story.

• setting

• plot

• theme

To break something down into parts to examine it.

• predict

• analyze

• cause and effect

To tell how things are alike or different.

• plot

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

Aspects of the character; looks, personality, thoughts/feelings, etc.

• conflict

• analyze

• character traits.