1. Main idea: the key message or thesis of the text
2. Key points: key points and their supporting details develop the main idea
3. Summary: a brief restatement of the main idea and the most important key points and details
4. Inference: a conclusion reached by critical thinking, reading between the lines, applying logic to facts and
evidence while recognizing context clues
5. Inference (explicit): clearly stated
6. Inference (implied): implied; not directly stated
7. Conclusion: a deduction made about an unstated outcome based on prediction, details, evidence, and results
8. Descriptive: includes sensory details to create a clear mental picture for the reader
9. Expository: informs, explains, or tells how to do something; uses only facts and examples
10. Narrative: tells a story to entertain, inform, or challenge
11. Persuasive: includes facts and strong opinions to make the reader feel, think, or behave a certain way
12. Bias: tendency toward a preconceived idea
13. Connotative meaning: the implied meaning of a word, with assumptions or an emotional charge
attached to it
14. Denotative meaning: the standard dictionary definition of a word
15. Rhetorical device: stylistic language used to have an emotional or persuasive ettect on the reader
16. Tone: the writer's attitude or emotions concerning the topic
17. Argument: a point the author believes
18. Compare and Contrast: to compare means to look for similarities; to contrast means to look for
ditterences
19. Prediction: a reader's guess of what could happen, based on details found in the text
20. Primary source: a firsthand, unaltered document by the original author or creator; includes novels, letters,
original research papers, datasets, paintings photographs
21. Secondary source: a document that analyzes, discusses, or reproduces a primary source; includes
textbooks and many other nonfiction books, review articles, biographies
22. Tertiary source: a reference work that consolidates information from primary and secondary sources;
includes encyclopedias, handbooks, study guides
23. PEMDAS: parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction
, 24. Least common denominator: the smallest number into which two or more denominators will divide
evenly