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You can use these to help you figure out the meaning of these words
What are Context Clues?
What provides details about a person, place, thing, event, or process?
What is Description?
This compares two or more things in order to clarify or explain something and answer the questions: What other thing is it like or related to?
What is Analogy?
When making this, first rule out any choices that cannot be supported by at least one detail from the passage.
What is Inferences?
Doing this, especially from more than one source, allows you to come up with creative solutions and efficient processes.
What is Analyzing Information?
This synonym, suggestions, has the same meaning as what word?
What are reccomendations?
This is an order, reveals a series of events over time or steps in a procedure.
What is Sequence?
The writer asserts an argument or a posti0n and supports it with evidence.
What is Claim and Support?
What is meant by "Read between the lines"?
What is Infer?
When you write one of these, you typically focus on the major plot points and avoid including personal opinions about the story or the writing quality.
What is Objective Summary?
What word or words help you understand the meaning of the word elicit?
A) Run away
B) Set off
C) Instinct
D) Chase
What is B) Set off
What is Cause and Effect?
The use of these words helps readers understand each step in the process.
What is Sequence?
What is a synonym?
What are some of the key points to Literary Elements?
What are Setting, Characters, Plot, Point of View and Theme.
What does the word Resemble mean?
What is Look like?
This explains how two or more persons, animals, things or events are alike and different.
What is Comparison and Contrast?
The purpose of this is to persuade readers to accept this.
What is Argument and Claim?
What are Layman's Terms?
What is easy to understand?
What is another element of fiction; it is the essential struggle within a story and it usually drives the plot.?
What is Conflict?
What does the word Arise mean?
What is Happen?
This presents a problem and describes how it is solved.
What is Problem and Solution
This is the remaining sentences of a passage that presents statistics that support the writer's claim.
What is Analysis of the Argument?
What is an antonym?
What is a word that means the opposite of?
Remember that a good one of these does not need to include every detail, it must include only the key details, which are usually plot points, basic setting, and main characters.
What is a Summary?