Inference Terms 1
The act of breaking into smaller components for the purpose of study or examination
What is analysis?
facts or information used as a support for whether a belief or proposition is true or valid
What is textual evidence?
something that happens, an activity or occasion
What is an event?
a personality in a literary work
What is a character/individual?
a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome
What is a problem?
personal contact with a fact or event or an observation of a fact or event
What is an experience?
a quotation or reference from a text brought forward as a support (more useful when it includes the line number, page number, and paragraph number)
What is a citation?
awareness gained before personal contact with a fact, event, or observation
What is prior knowledge?
clearly stated
What is explicitly?
a particular fact or piece of information about something or someone
What is a detail?
the individual who relates or tells the story
What is a narrator?
a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action
What is an idea?
conservations between two or more persons/characters
What is dialogue?
a logical assumption based on observed facts from the text and one's own prior knowledge and/or experience
What is an inference?
a composition, usually in verse, that may be characterized by a highly devloped artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm
What is a poem?