excerpts
Chosen text samples
Excerpts are passages selected from larger works—books, speeches, films, or music.
The word implies deliberate extraction: someone chose these portions as representative, compelling, or useful.
The article included excerpts from the interview.
To excerpt is to select and reproduce such passages: She excerpted the most damning paragraphs for her report.
Terse general truth
Gathered works assembled together
- collectionGathered set of items
- readerOne who peruses text
- treasuryStored organizational funds
- omnibusVolume of gathered writings
compendium · digest · sampler · miscellany · abridgment · condensation · highlights
aphorism
Terse general truth
compilation
Gathered works assembled together
- collectionGathered set of items
- readerOne who peruses text
- treasuryStored organizational funds
omnibus · compendium · digest · sampler · miscellany · abridgment · condensation · highlights
passage
Segment of text
snippet · fragment · selection · portion · clip · cutting · segment · section · piece · bit
teaser
Something that piques interest
taster · intro · sample · taste · hook · lead-in · curtain-raiser · appetizer · trailer · advance
- Japanese LiteratureNorwegian Wood, Rashomon, Confessions, Kappa, Genji
- publishing revenuebook sales, subscription fees, subscriptions, licensing fees, film rights
- readingfluency, read, comprehension, readers, books
- document contentappendix, appendices, addendum, addenda, supplement
- literary contentpoetry, fiction, prose, essays, verse
- selectionspicks, selections, curated, hand-picked, shortlist
excerptsfull text
Complete original wording
entirety · whole · totality · full version · uncut version
excerptsinserts
Items placed within others
additions · insertions · interpolations · inclusions · supplements
- book excerptQuoted section from publication
- musical excerptsPortions from compositions