Testing Vocabulary ELA

a spoken or written account of connected events - a story

• argument

• narrative

• informative essay

• persuasive essay

a part selected from a larger piece of literature

• passage

• excerpt

• both passage and excerpt 

• neither passage nor excerpt

evidence from a text that is used to illustrate your ideas and support your arguments

• perspective

• counterargument

• claim 

• textual support

to mention, quote, or give credit to an author 

• multiple sources

• cite a source

• a publisher

• express an idea

“I admire the way you have worked so hard throughout your life.” Based on this sentence, what does the word admire mean?

• Dislike

• Appreciate

• Hurtful

• Underdstand

Based on this sentence, what does the word admire mean?

• Dislike

• Appreciate

• Hurtful

• Underdstand

antecedent 

• I, he, her, them

• adverb

• adjective 

•  a word for which a pronoun stands

an argument (point/reason/view/evidence) that your opponent would make

• rebuttal 

• counterargument 

• position

• claim

when you respond directly to your opponent's argument to show that they are wrong

• statement

• express

• evidence

• rebuttal

where an author stands on an issue

• cite

• fact

• opinion

• position