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Analyze

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Breaking apart something (like a text) in order to understand how each part works, as well as passing judgement about the worth and purpose of something.

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Characteristic

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A feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing and serving to identify it; may be physical or may describe the object’s nature.

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Examine

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To look closely at something.

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Critique, Criticize

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A detailed analysis; break apart the text and assess the value.

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Evidence

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Support for a claim or argument; comes from the original text in order to prove or back up a statement.

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Dialogue

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A conversation between two or more characters in a literary work.

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Narrative

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A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.

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Claim

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An assertion or statement that something is true, typically without providing evidence.

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Synthesize

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To combine different ideas or pieces of information to form a coherent whole.

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Central Idea

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The main point or message that the author wants to convey in a text.