NC Check In Academic Vocab Terms

1. What does it mean to cite evidence?

• To describe your personal opinion in an essay

• To write an objective summary of the text

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  To give examples or quotes from the text to support your answer

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  To draw conclusions based on what the text is about

2. What is meant by author’s purpose?

• The feelings and opinion of the author

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  The reason the author wrote the text

• The tone and mood of the author

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  The main characters and narrator in the story

3. What is an objective statement?

• A sentence that shows someone’s opinion

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  A sentence with only facts and no opinions

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  C. A summary of a paragraph

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  A 17 word gist statement

4. What is meant by the speaker’s perspective?

• What the speaker sees around them

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  The internal thoughts and conflict

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  The background information about the speaker

• The speaker’s attitude and point of view

5. What does inferred from a speaker’s or narrator’s perspective refer to?

• What they say directly with quotes included
  

• What they are trying to hide using narration

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  What you can figure out based on clues and details

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  What someone else says or thinks about them

6. What is the effect of alliteration in a sentence or poem?

• It repeats sounds to create rhythm or focus

• It makes the writing more monotone

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  It helps with rhyme and meter only

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  It makes it harder for the reader to comprehend

7. What does the phrase "contribute to the meaning" mean?

• To show the word’s origin and roots

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  To explain what the author’s next idea will be about

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  To show how a part adds to the overall idea or message

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  To find the synonym of the word

8. What does it mean when a question asks how the author distinguishes their position?

• The author changes their opinion

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  The author ignores other ideas

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  The author includes evidence only from experts

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  The author shows how their opinion is different from others

9. What does it mean to find the effect of a phrase?

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  To explain why the author used it and what it makes the reader think or feel

• To guess what might be foreshadowed next

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  To define the phrase in your own words

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  To find figurative language or sound devices in the phrase

11. What does it mean when the question asks “What can be inferred from the details in paragraph ....”

• You should restate the paragraph in your own words

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  You should foreshadow what the paragraph directly says

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  You should figure out something that is hinted at but not stated directly

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  You should write your opinion about details in the paragraph