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CMAS Preparation
Know these terms in order to demonstrate your knowledge!
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| passage | a text |
| exerpt | a small piece of a text taken from a larger text |
| narrative | a text that tells a story |
| expository | a text that is explaining something |
| prompt | a specific question with instructions on how to respond |
| summary | a consice paragraph that retells what a text was mostly about |
| main idea | the big idea or most important point of an informational text |
| theme | the big idea or important message of a story |
| moral | the lesson of a story, usually in a fable |
| genre | a type of writing |
| essay | a multi-paragraph expository response |
| compare and contrast | finding similarities and differences |
| point of view | who is telling a story |
| third person point-of-view | an outside narrator telling a story |
| first person point-of-view | a character telling their own story using "I" |
| support | provide evidence and proof |