Vocabulary Quiz 1

What does accurate mean?

• incorrect

• excellent

• conflict-free

• correct

What is an analysis?

• An examination of the differences between two ideas in a text

• A breakdown of a text's elements

• A breakdown of the central idea of a text

• An examination of the similarities between two ideas in a text

When something is state explicitly, it is...

• written without any errors

• the key supporting detail in the text

• directly and clearly in the text

• written without any errors

What is the central idea?

• The most important, or repeated, point an author makes.

• The reason an author writes the text.

• The moral lesson of a text that teaches the reader something.

• The ideas that build, explain, and clarify the main idea.

Supporting details are...

• the most important, or repeated, point an author tries to make.

• the main reason an author writes a text.

• details that build, support, explain, and/or clarify the central idea.

• the least important ideas in a text.

What does it mean when an author 'refines' the central idea?

• to edit it for errors

• to make longer

• to make more complex

• to clarify or make clearer

What is the definition of summary?

• an opinionated review about a text or movie

• a brief restatement of the article's central ideas and important details in your own words

• an analysis of the central idea and why it is important

• a retelling of everything that happens in a text or movie

When we are talking about summaries, objective means...

• the main goal

• full of opinions

• free of opinions

• exciting and entertaining

What is an inference?

• A guess that is based on your opinions

• A prediction about what the story's central conflict will be

• A prediction on what a text will be about

• An educated guess based on textual evidence and background knowledge

What is text evidence?

• a piece of information from a text (used to support an inference)

• a review of how well a text is written

• a summary of a text's central ideas and supporting details

• a piece of information that provides the central idea