TCAP ELA Important Vocabulary

What is the main idea?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• What the passage is mostly about

• The moral or lesson of the story

• A major category or type of literature

What are supporting details?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• Details that support the main idea

• The reason why something happens

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

What does drawing conclusions involve?

• Combining several pieces of information to make an inference

• Providing someone with amusement or enjoyment

• The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events

• Good at persuading someone to do or believe something through reasoning or the use of temptation

What is the definition of cause?

• The moral or lesson of the story

• The reason why something happens

• A major category or type of literature

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

What is an effect?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• The reason why something happens

• Result (what happened)

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

What is the 1st person point of view?

• The narrator is NOT involved in the story; uses "he," "she," "they"

• The narrator is a character in the story. (I, me, my, we, our)

• The moral or lesson of the story

• A major category or type of literature

What is the 3rd person point of view?

• The narrator is a character in the story. (I, me, my, we, our)

• The narrator is NOT involved in the story; uses "he," "she," "they"

• The moral or lesson of the story

• A major category or type of literature

What are context clues?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• Details that support the main idea

• The reason why something happens

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

What does visualizing refer to?

• The act of imagining and seeing pictures in the mind

• Details that support the main idea

• The reason why something happens

• Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

What does it mean to persuade?

• To give information

• To convince

• To provide someone with amusement or enjoyment

• Intended to explain or describe something