Informational Text Review

Texts or passages that are fiction, dramas, or poems can be described as...

• literary

• genre

• informational

• passages

A type of literary text each with a particular style, form, and content; for example: fantasy, horror, historical fiction, dystopian, romance, comedic, etc.

• genre

• literature

• text type

• story

The process of looking closely at the small parts of a text to see how they work together and affect the whole.

• analysis

• textual evidence

• objective summary

• cite

A direct quotation (word-for-word repeat of the text using quotation marks) or a paraphrase (rewriting the details for the text in their own words) of a text.

• textual evidence

• cite

• objective summary

• analysis

When someone mentions a specific portion of a text in order to support an analysis of the text.

• cite

• analysis

• inference

• explicit

Specific details from the text that support the author's tone, purpose, characterization, or central theme.

• textual evidence

• citation

• theme

• topic

A reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

• inference

• analysis

• citation

• textual evidence

A universal statement about life and/or society that can be discerned from the reading of a text.

• theme

• analysis

• genre

• inference

What the content of a text is mainly about.

• topic

• theme

• objective summary

• central idea

To create and cause to emerge deliberately by degrees or in detail.

• develop

• theme

• inference

• propel