Text Analysis Quiz

What is text evidence?

• It is the details and evidence that comes from the text that is used to support your analysis.

• It is when the reader breaks down the important ideas from the author.

• When you expand on the author's ideas by adding your own opinions.

• When you give the author credit for their ideas.

What do you do when you paraphrase?

• Repeat the author's ideas word for word.

• Rewrite the author's idea in your own words making it shorter than the actual text.

• Put the main points from the author into your own words in order to give a broad overview of the passage.

What is a quotation?

• Repeat the author's ideas word for word.

• Rewrite the author's idea in your own words making it shorter than the actual text.

• Put the main points from the author into your own words in order to give a broad overview of the passage.

What is a summary?

• Repeat the author's ideas word for word.

• Rewrite the author's idea in your own words making it shorter than the actual text.

• Put the main points from the author into your own words in order to give a broad overview of the passage.

What does it mean to analyze a text?

• Break the text down, pick out the big ideas, and identify reasons and evidence.

• To provide examples that prove your opinion.

• To give credit to the author after using their words as support.

• The proof needed in order to answer a question.

When should you give the author credit? (select all that apply)

• When you repeat an author's ideas word for word from the text.

• When you rewrite the author's idea in your own words

• When you put the author’s main points into your own words.

• When you give your opinion and analysis of the text.