Excerpt

The students have to analyze an excerpt from the book.

I was planning to include an excerpt from The Chronicles of Narnia.

Dan played an excerpt of classical music to the students.

I would say that a verse is a structural unit, whereas a passage or excerpt can consist of parts of multiple verses or a small part of a verse.

The family also spent time in Bali, Borneo, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Nepal. They backpacked, snorkeled, and got a close up view of animals few American children see except in zoos, but they saw disturbing evidence as well of how human activities can affect the environment. Zoe Glick read an excerpt from her journal.

The following passage is an excerpt from a well-known fairy story.

out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars