Academic English Language

the shortened version of a story

• paragraph

• summary

• explain

• central message

a group of lines or the paragraph in a poem

• Stanza

• theme

• moral

• caption

the person who wrote a text or book

• poem

• trace

• author

• support

tell how things are alike

• contrast

• compare

• identify

• passage

tell why

• purpose

• point of view

• effect

• explain

– the story or text

• passage

• caption

• describe

• compare

what the story is mostly about

• illustrate

• analyze

• moral

• Main Idea

to guess using text evidence and background knowledge

• cause

• point of view

• infer

• diagram

- correct

• cause

• purpose

• character

• accurate

to find out

• identify

• accurate

• moral

• describe