ACP Review: Expository

Specific information that supports a claim

• Direct Quote
• Summarize
• Evidence
• Paraphrase

To form an opinion from evidence, to reach a conclusion based on facts

• infer/inference

• analyze/analysis

• synthesize

• theme

To give special importance or prominence to something in speaking or writing

• formulate

• convey

• summarize

• emphasize

A short piece of writing taken from a longer text

• strategy

• segment

• excerpt

• extension

What does it mean to convey something?

• To steal or take

• To call

• To communicate or make known

• To talk, speak, etc.

Which term means "to point out or show"?

• detect

• indicate

• visualize

• dispute

Something that has happened or can be proven

• Opinion
• Message
• Fact
• Tone

"Stuff" in the story that helps you prove an answer is correct.

• Imagery
• Textual Evidence
• Rhyme Scheme
• Words

The author might organize informational text by listing dates, or putting events in the story in order from when they happened

• Cause and effect

• Chronological

• Problem and solution

• Description

The author might organize informational text by stating a conflict, and then providing a solution to that conflict

• Description

• Problem and solution

• Chronological

• Cause and effect