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terms and definition
reading terms for PSSA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sound in words in a sentence. |
| Antagonist | Principal character in opposition to the protagonist. Sometimes not a person but an obstacle such as a force of nature, society or inner conflict. |
| Author's Purpose | why did the author write the selection? |
| Autobiography | The story of a person's life written by the person |
| Biography | The story of a person's life written by another person. |
| Cause and Effect | The cause of something and the effect that happened after that |
| Characterization | The method and author uses to commmunicate information about the character to the reader |
| Climax | The exciting part in the story |
| Compare and contrast | Compare means similarities and contrast means differences |
| Conclusion | The end of the reading selection |
| Conflict | Struggle between opposing forces in literature |
| Character vs. Character | Character fight of have conflict between each other example of conflict |
| Connections | text to self something that relates to regular life |
| Context clues | Info within the text that helps figure the meaning of words |
| Dialogue | The actual words that the character speaks |
| Evaluate | To examine and judge |
| Exposition | The introduction of characters and setting |
| Expository text | Text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic |
| Fable | A narrative intended to convey a moral of lesson to the reader |
| Fact vs. Opinion | Something that is proven to be true or false |
| Falling Action | Part of story that happens after suspenseful part |
| Fiction | Any story that is the product of imagination rather than fact |
| Figurative language | Personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole |
| Flashback | Time in the past that has important things |
| Folktales | Stories passed through generations |
| Forshadowing | A writing technique that gives readers clues about events that will happen later in the story |
| Generalizations | An assumption about different events or characters |
| Genre | Catergories of literature |
| Graphic organizer | a diagram that is used to represent info |
| Homonym | Two or more words that are pronounced alike but have different meanings |
| Hyperbole | And exaggeration statement |
| Imagery | words and phrass used specifically to help the reader to iimagine each of the senses |
| Inference | To make an assumption using what you already know |
| Irony | A tone that is created when the speaker intends to mean that which is opposite to the words they are saying |
| Judge | To say if something is good or bad1 |
| Limerick | light or humerous verse |
| Metaphor | comparison between two unlike things |
| Mood | The overall feeling that is created by the author's words |
| Narrator | The speaker of a story |
| Nonfiction | A story that is true |
| ONomatopoeia | Words that make a sound |
| Oxymoron | Two words that have opposite meanings |
| Paraphrase | Restate in your own words |
| Personification | Giving lively characteristics to inanamite objects |
| Plot | Events that occur in the story beginning with the setting and ending with the resolution |
| Poetry | Writing that expresses ideas through rhythmic patterns |
| Point of view | Perspective from which the story is told |
| Prediction | Making and educated guess as to what will happen next |
| Prefix | Letters added to the beginning of a word |
| Protagonist | The central character in a story |
| Reaction Reaxt | Offer your own opinion of the reading |
| Resolution | occurs at the end of a story |
| Rising action | The part of a story including the exposition, which builds the climax |
| Root word | A word to which prefixes and suffixes are added |
| Sequential order | order in which the events in the story are presented to the reader |
| Setting | The environment of story |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as |
| Suffix | letters placed at the end of the words |
| Summarizing | a concise explanation of a reading selection |
| Supporting details | details that support the main idea of the passage |
| Suspense | exciting parts in the story |
| Symbol | An image, or object |
| Synonym | two or more words that have highly similar meanings |
| Theme | Lesson or moral of the story |
| tone | Clues of the story that suggest the writer's own attitude toward elements in the story |
| Visualization | The ability to 'see" what you are reading |
| Voice | Voice is the author's style |
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