Common State Testing Vocabulary Quiz

The definition of text is...

• to make clear and understandable for others

• the plot or ordered events in a novel, poem, drama, etc.

• words, content, body

• the main body of reading

The plot or ordered events in a novel, poem, drama, etc.

• supporrt

• story

• text

• contrast

compare

• details

• group

• examine in order to note likenesses between two things or what they have in common

• noting individual features or characteristics

noting individual features or characteristics

• identify

• contrast

• describe

• explain

to describe, explain, display, or illustrate through examples

• details

• develop

• context

• demonstrate

contrast

• set apart

• compare

• tell or show with written or spoken words; point out facts or details

• examine in order to identify and understand differences between two or more things

tell or show with written or spoken words; point out facts or details

• explain

• context

• tell or show with written or spoken words; point out facts or details

• describe

context

• text

• author's most important idea or the inspiration/reason for creating written work

• parts of writing or of speech that precede or follow a specific word or passage

• expand an idea

author's most important idea or the inspiration/reason for creating written work

• develop

• Main Idea

• details

• support

explain

• to make clear or understandable to others

• to back up, using evidence to justify your answer, opinion, or claim

• expand an idea