| A | B |
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| Analyze | Parts are examined to understand how they work together to create meaning as a whole. |
| Diction | A writer’s or speaker’s choice of words and way of arranging the words in sentences. |
| Drawing conclusions | A special kind of inference that involves not reading between the lines but reading beyond the lines. The reader combines what he or she already knows with information from the text. |
| Evaluate | To form opinions about what is read. Through this process readers may develop their own ideas about characters and events. |
| Fact | Knowledge or information that can be verified. |
| Flashback | An interruption in the action of a plot to tell what happened at an earlier time. |
| Inference | The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true; the conclusions drawn from this process. |
| Interpret | To translate, analyze, or give examples drawn from a text. This process involves making an inference beyond the literal meaning of a text in order to determine meaning. |
| Paraphrasing | Helps readers to clarify meaning by restating information in their own words. |
| Symbolism | The use of something concrete (e.g., an object, a setting, an event, an animal, or a person) that functions in a text to represent something more than itself. |
