ACCURATE ANSWERS AND
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Topic - ANSWER✔✔✨---the general subject of the the text
Main idea - ANSWER✔✔✨---the key message or thesis of the text
Key points - ANSWER✔✔✨---key points and their supporting details develop the main idea
Summary - ANSWER✔✔✨---a brief restatement of the main idea and the most important key points
and details
Inference - ANSWER✔✔✨---a conclusion reached by critical thinking, reading between the lines,
applying logic to facts and evidence while recognizing context clues
Inference (explicit) - ANSWER✔✔✨---clearly stated
Inference (implied) - ANSWER✔✔✨---implied; not directly stated
Conclusion - ANSWER✔✔✨---a deduction made about an unstated outcome based on prediction,
details, evidence, and results
Descriptive - ANSWER✔✔✨---includes sensory details to create a clear mental picture for the reader
,Expository - ANSWER✔✔✨---informs, explains, or tells how to do something; uses only facts and
examples
Narrative - ANSWER✔✔✨---tells a story to entertain, inform, or challenge
Persuasive - ANSWER✔✔✨---includes facts and strong opinions to make the reader feel, think, or
behave a certain way
Bias - ANSWER✔✔✨---tendency toward a preconceived idea
Connotative meaning - ANSWER✔✔✨---the implied meaning of a word, with assumptions or an
emotional charge attached to it
Denotative meaning - ANSWER✔✔✨---the standard dictionary definition of a word
Rhetorical device - ANSWER✔✔✨---stylistic language used to have an emotional or persuasive
effect on the reader
Tone - ANSWER✔✔✨---the writer's attitude or emotions concerning the topic
Argument - ANSWER✔✔✨---a point the author believes
Compare and Contrast - ANSWER✔✔✨---to compare means to look for similarities; to contrast
means to look for differences
Prediction - ANSWER✔✔✨---a reader's guess of what could happen, based on details found in the
text
Primary source - ANSWER✔✔✨---a firsthand, unaltered document by the original author or creator;
includes novels, letters, original research papers, datasets, paintings photographs
, Secondary source - ANSWER✔✔✨---a document that analyzes, discusses, or reproduces a primary
source; includes textbooks and many other nonfiction books, review articles, biographies
Tertiary source - ANSWER✔✔✨---a reference work that consolidates information from primary and
secondary sources; includes encyclopedias, handbooks, study guides
PEMDAS - ANSWER✔✔✨---parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and
subtraction
Least common denominator - ANSWER✔✔✨---the smallest number into which two or more
denominators will divide evenly
Decimals - ANSWER✔✔✨---represent parts of a whole
Ratio - ANSWER✔✔✨---a comparison between the quantity of one item and the quantity of another
item
Mean - ANSWER✔✔✨---the average of a set of numbers
Median - ANSWER✔✔✨---the middle number
Mode - ANSWER✔✔✨---the number that appears most often in a set of numbers
Range - ANSWER✔✔✨---measures the spread of a given set of numbers
Area - ANSWER✔✔✨---the amount of space within the boundary of the shape
Perimeter - ANSWER✔✔✨---the distance around the shape