MSTEP Vocab 2

If you are asked to "construct" a response, the question is asking you to:

• Write your own response to the prompt using your own words.
• Copy a section of the text that applies to your answer.
• Build your own solution to the problem.
• Choose the multiple choice answer that best answers the question.

What does the word "demonstrate" mean in the following statement?
Demonstrate how to solve the problem 2a+5b=22.

• Show the steps to solve the problem.
• Write the answer to the problem.
• Find out what "a" equals.
• Find out what "b" equals.

What does it mean to rewrite an idea or text in your own words?

• transition
• paraphrase
• plotline
• conflict

What is taking another person's words or ideas and using them as your own called?

• thesis
• cite
• plagiarism
• paraphrase

Two or more people speaking to one another is called...

• monologue
• dialogue
• conflict
• stage directions

The words around a picture that tell more about that photo is called...

• a diagram
• a caption
• table of contents
• a key word

Giving clues as to what's to come in the story BEFORE it happens is called...

• climax
• flashback
• foreshadow

An interruption in the story to show an event that occurred previously is called...

• flashback
• foreshadow
• line break

Time and place of the story is called...

• theme
• plot
• setting
• conflict

What does the word "analyze" mean in the following sentence?

Analyze the passage to determine which text structure the author used.

• Read the passage to understand it

• Look at, or examine, the passage to see how it is written

• Figure out what the passage is saying

• Reread the passage to double check what is means