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Academic Vocabulary

TermDefinition
Trace List in steps; outline
Analyze Break apart
Infer Read between the lines
Formulate Create and build
Support Back up with details
Explain Tell how
Compare Tell all the ways they are alike
Contrast Tell all the ways they are different
Describe Tell all about
Predict What will happen next
Summarize Give me the short version
author's purpose an author’s purpose for writing a text:
claim to say that something is true or is a fact, although you cannot prove it and other people might not believe it
connotation/ connotative language language that communicates a feeling or idea that is suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning, or something suggested by an object or situation
develop 1. to bring out the possibilities of 2. to begin to exist or be present gradually 3. to create over time 4. to grow or cause to grow more mature, or more advanced
evaluate to judge or calculate the quality, importance, amount, or value of something
illustration 1. a picture or diagram that explains or decorates 2. an example or instance used to make something clear
integrate 1. to combine two or more things in order to become more effective 2. to combine ideas from sources with one’s own ideas
plot the plan or main story (as of a movie or literary work); the sequence of events of a story, play, novel, etc.; made up of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
propel to drive or cause to move in a particular direction, usually forward
point of view a way of looking at or thinking about something
suspense a feeling of anxious or excited uncertainty
theme underlying message or big idea of a talk, book, film, or other work; the universal lesson or moral in a story
Conveyed communicated
 

 



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