QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE
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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