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Here's your shmoop du jour brought to

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you by paraphrasing as the great Abraham Lincoln once said paraphrasing is like [Lincoln talking about paraphrasing]

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the coolest thing ever well we might be paraphrasing and when

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we say all that so let's just move on, sorry... A blank is a short statement about

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the main points of a story. Here are the potential answers all right....

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...Alrighty so this one's just about knowing our [Young boy holding up a test paper graded A+]

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vocab which of these four words is a short statement that basically sums

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something up well there is our first clue

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wink wink it isn't C; inference an inference is a conclusion you draw about

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something based on what you know for example if you know that Abraham Lincoln [Man stood by a door and Lincoln walks through

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hit his head a lot on low doorways you might make an inference that he was a

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tall fellow and you'd be right option C on the other hand is wrong then there's

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D; Theme, No not this one either a theme is an idea or subject of a piece of writing [Woman explaining the theme for a students next paper]

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but it doesn't recap the main point like if you were reading an article about

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Lincoln's liberation of slaves some of the themes might be about freedom [Boy studying about Lincoln and slavery]

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equality justice you know all that good stuff but the themes alone wouldn't tell

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you how he went about getting it done and there was a whole war in there by [Man riding a horse into a battle]

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the way and that's a big thing to miss..

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Paraphrase and summary are both similar in meaning except that a summary is a

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thing while paraphrase is something you do i.e summary is a noun and paraphrase

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is a verb we're looking for a short statement here so only a noun will fit

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if you were to paraphrase you'd be summing a story in your own words, like [Two girls talking while on a hike]

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you might tell someone about Lincoln's assassination by saying that he went to

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the theatre with his wife and he was shot by some looney tune who was mad [Man shoots Lincoln at the theatre]

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about the whole emancipation thing but a summary is the actual recap itself so B

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is the winner but also as Lincoln said it's more important that we watch the [Lincoln talking to people on watching the whole video]

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whole video than that we arrive at the correct answer

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don't quote us at that...

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