CASPP ELA Prep

What do you call pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea?

• details

• support

• demonstrate

• expalin

What do you call a piece of writing that describes an incident and includes a personal response and reflection?

• personal narrative

• expository essay

• argumentative essay

• summary

When they ask you to ascertain or establish exactly as a result of a calculation, you are being asked to do what?

• determine

• add

• narrate

• describe

When you are told to back up or justify your answer, opinion, or claim with evidence, you are being asked to do what?

• support

• infer

• determine

• describe

A statement that tells what a passage is mostly about is called what?

• main/central idea

• introduction

• conclusion

• theme

What do you call the life lesson the author is trying to get across to the reader in a story?

• theme

• main idea

• argument

• inference

What term means clearly stated or shown?

• emplicit

• explicit

• implicit

• xplicit

What is it to imply something or arrive at a conclusion based on reasoning and what you have read?

• infer

• summarize

• explain

• describe

What do you call a brief statement of the main points of something you have read?

• summarize

• infer

• denote

• imply

A writer's attitude toward his or her subject is called...

• tone

• mood

• theme

• opinion