Text Passage

Which literary term means a passage that informs you about real-life people, places, things, and events?

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

• Poetry

• Drama

Which literary term means what the text is mostly about?

• Main Idea

• Details

• Inference

which literary term means the bits and pieces of information that support the main idea?

• main idea

• summary

• details

• inference

Which term is an educated guess based on the information in a passage and your prior knowledge (schema)?

• main idea

• inference

• details

• summary

What is author's purpose?

• the reason the author wrote a text

• the viewpoint of the author

Which term means putting part of a text in your own words?

• inference

• details

• paraphrase

• main idea

What is a summary?

• a bunch of details put together

• a shortened version of the text that focuses on the main ideas

A statement that can be proven with evidence

• fact

• opinion

• inference

A statement that is based on someone's personal beliefs or judgment

• opinion

• facts

• inference

To find similarities between two or more things

• compare

• contrast

• cause

• effect