Academic Vocab Words to Know

What does analyze mean?

• claim

• break down or deconstruct

• change

• support

Contrast the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" to the movie. What is this question asking you to do?

• Put it in your own words

• Find the similarities and differences

• Find the differences

• Find the similarities

Support your answer. What would this question be asking you to do?

• nothing

• paint a mental picture in the reader's mind

• retell the essential details of what happened

• cite text evidence from a passage

Compare the theme of the poem "Ode to Joy" to the short story "My Teacher Got Eaten by a Dinosaur." What would this question be asking you to do?

• Find similarities between the plot of the poem and the short story.

• Find differences between the plot of the poem and short story.

• Find differences between the poem and short story's themes.

• Find similarities between the poem and short story's themes.

Summarize the plot of "The Landlady." What would you be doing to correctly answer this question?

• retell the story from start to finish

• retell the essential parts of the story without opinion, including the TAG

• Title, author, genre

• State the theme

What does the prefix -un mean? Think of words you know that contain the -un prefix (unhappy, unsubscribe, etc.)

• say

• again

• below

• not

Think of the word misinform. What does the prefix -mis mean?

• not

• build

• life

• against

What does the word precede mean? Look at the prefix -pre and think of other words you know the meaning of that begin the same (pretest).

• come before in time

• looking at life

• come after in time

• overcome