Checkpoint 2: ELA Vocabulary

to study or examine something very carefully

• claim

• analyze

• annotate

• central idea

short explanation of the central ideas of a text

• connotation

• central idea

• summary

• authors perspective

a summary that does not include personal opinions or biases

• central idea

• objective

• subjective

• argument

The main focus of a text

• evidence

• elaborate

• anecdote

• central idea

add details to something: explain more fully

• elaborate

• connotation

• denotation

• author's purpose

a short story about the topic

• cite

• trace

• anecdote

• summary

an author's reason or intent for writing

• author's perspective

• author's purpose

• claim

• evaluate

feelings, implications, opinions of a word

• connotation

• denotation

• evidence

• imagery

author's feelings towards a topic

• objective

• author's purpose

• author's perspective

• analyze

series of events that make up a story

• imagery

• claim

• reasons

• plot