The students have to analyze an excerpt from the book.
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Excerpt
/ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t/
Synonyms for "excerpt" (81 found)
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Strong matches (24)
Adjective(3 words)
daily readinglegal textliterary piece
Noun(11 words)
Verb(1 words)
Related words (40)
Noun(24 words)
musical piecepassagepassagesplay segmentpoem fragmentquotequotesquotingreadingreading excerptreading passagereferencerhapsodyselectsnatchessnipsnippetsnippetssnipstext sample
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text segmenttextbook passagethin slicewritten text
Adjective(2 words)
partial phrasetextual example
Verb(1 words)
take out
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12 entriesacademic excerptbrief excerptexcerpt a passageexcerpt from textexcerpted passagehistorical excerptliterary excerptnovel excerptpoem excerptsample excerptshort excerpttextbook excerpt
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7 total sentences available.
I was planning to include an excerpt from The Chronicles of Narnia.
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Dan played an excerpt of classical music to the students.
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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.
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