analyze  - To break material down into segments and determine how the parts relate to one another and to the overall structure or purpose of the text, central idea - The main idea, explain  - To make clear by describing in more detail or giving relevant facts or ideas, tone - The author’s attitude reflected in the style of the written word, describe - Adding details about the appearance, nature, and/or attributes of elements or ideas in literary or informational text using vivid language and textual evidence , setting - The general place, historical time, and social circumstances in which action occurs in a story or play, summary - Shorten a text to its general themes and/or major points, clarify - To make the meaning more transparent and easy to understand , interpret - Understand and explain the meaning of a topic, characters  - Individuals represented in a drama or story; can be human, animals, or humanized objects, persuade - A type of speech or written communication that develops or debates a topic in a logical, persuasive, or argumentative way, author’s purpose - The motive or reason for which an author writes, as to entertain, inform, or persuade, compare - Indicates similarities between two or more ideas, objects, concepts, and other elements from a text, evaluate  - To make judgments about the value of ideas, purposes, or claims of a text or story, contrast - Indicates differences between two or more ideas, objects, concepts, and other elements from a text, plot - The events and actions of a story: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution, infer - A conclusion logically drawn from presented information and context clues, context - The parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing the meaning or effect, demonstrate - To make evident or prove, text features - Nonfiction features, as well as graphic, informational, and organizational aids (ie: bold print, italics, maps, charts, labels, headings),

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