NJSLA Review Terms

To show using steps

• demonstrate

• denotation

• connotation

• compare

The dictionary definition of a word

• connotation

• denotation

• analyze

• describe

All the meanings, associations or emotions that a word suggests

• analyze

• denotation

• connotation

• infer

To look at a part of a whole

• explain

• analyze

• contrast

• persuade

To give a detailed account including reasons or causes

• analyze

• connotation

• summarize

• explain

To tell the similarities or ways two or more things are the same

• contrast

• infer

• compare

• describe

To find the differences between two or more things

• compare

• connotation

• contrast

• explain

How you interpret it (figure it out) using evidence from the text

• infer

• connotation

• denotation

• summarize

Explain the main points in your own words

• interpret

• infer

• evidence

• summarize

To explain and understand the meaning of something

• evidence

• interpret

• persuade

• theme