Academic Vocabulary Quiz

Read between the lines; make an educated guess (evidence + common sense)

• Elaborate

• inference

• summarize

• tone

The voice that tells the story

• the reader

• illustrator

• the narrator

• the setting

The time and place of the action in a story, play, or poem

• objective summary

• summary

• setting

• tone

Give a shorter version of something 

• summarize

• introduce

• brief

• convey

The  main reason or intent for writing 

• central idea

• author's purpose

• elaborate

• introduce

to show or to communicate

• convey

• infer

• impact

• central idea

A summary that does not include any opinions or judgements about what is written in the text 

• argumentative summary

• objective summary

• central idea

• affect

A reasonable guess, which is based on both evidence and your prior knowledge of a topic

• inference

• central idea

• elaborate

• convey

To give more details about something 

• tone

• elaborate

• inference

• impact

The attitude of the author

• central idea

• author's purpose

• give credit

• tone