Academic Vocab #1

What does synthesize mean?

• to put together information from different parts of a text to see the author’s ideas in new ways.

• clues or details in the text that support an answer or idea.

• the big idea, moral, or lesson of a piece of writing.

• when a reader creates or pictures images in his or her mind in order to understand a text.

What is text evidence?

• clues or details in the text that support an answer or idea.

• the big idea, moral, or lesson of a piece of writing.

• when a reader creates or pictures images in his or her mind in order to understand a text.

• showing how two or more things are alike.

What is theme?

• the big idea, moral, or lesson of a piece of writing.

• when a reader creates or pictures images in his or her mind in order to understand a text.

• showing how two or more things are alike.

• showing how two or more things are different.

What does it mean to visualize?

• when a reader creates or pictures images in his or her mind in order to understand a text.

• showing how two or more things are alike.

• showing how two or more things are different.

• describes how readers experience a story, either through a character in the story (first-person) or an outside narrator (third-person).

What does it mean to compare?

• showing how two or more things are alike.

• showing how two or more things are different.

• describes how readers experience a story, either through a character in the story (first-person) or an outside narrator (third-person).

• a chapter in a play that contains more than one scene.

What does it mean to contrast?

• showing how two or more things are different.

• describes how readers experience a story, either through a character in the story (first-person) or an outside narrator (third-person).

• a chapter in a play that contains more than one scene.

• in a play, the character’s name in capital letters that indicates that character’s speaking part.

What is point of view?

• describes how readers experience a story, either through a character in the story (first-person) or an outside narrator (third-person).

• a chapter in a play that contains more than one scene.

• in a play, the character’s name in capital letters that indicates that character’s speaking part.

• the words that characters in a story or drama say aloud to each other.

What is an act in a play?

• a chapter in a play that contains more than one scene.

• in a play, the character’s name in capital letters that indicates that character’s speaking part.

• the words that characters in a story or drama say aloud to each other.

• a play or story that is acted out by people in a performance.

What is a character tag?

• in a play, the character’s name in capital letters that indicates that character’s speaking part.

• the words that characters in a story or drama say aloud to each other.

• a play or story that is acted out by people in a performance.

• the action in a play that takes place in a single setting.

What is dialogue?

• the words that characters in a story or drama say aloud to each other

• a play or story that is acted out by people in a performance.

• the action in a play that takes place in a single setting.

• where and when a story takes place.