Academic Vocabulary ELA

What is a movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another?

• Evaluation

• Transition

• Analogy

• Deconstruction

What is it called when the information within a text is organized?

• Textual Evidence

• Text Feature

• Text Structure

• Transition

When the test opinions are used to emphasize points or information within a text, it is called what?

• Textual Evidence

• Text Structure

• Evidence

• Text Feature

What is to examine critically, so as to bring out the essential elements or give the essence of?

• Evaluate

• Identify

• Synthesize

• Analyze

To judge or determine the significance, worth or quality of; to assess is to...?

• Evaluate

• Analyze

• Infer

• Synthesize

To recognize or establish as being a particular thing is to...?

• Anayze

• Evaluate

• Identity

• Infer

To form by combining parts or elements; to bring together information from multiple source is called what?

• Analyze

• Infer

• Synthesize

• Evaluate

What does it mean to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence.

• Infer

• Analyze

• Evaluate

• Identity

What is to compare in order to show differences?

• Compare

• Analyze

• Contrast

• Evaluate

What is the meaning of the word "figurative"?

• literal

• small numbers

• symbolic, not literal

• explained