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Reading PSSA terms
words and definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Connections | Texts to self; world; or text. The reader can connect or relate what he has read to something else |
| Evaluate | to examine and judge; to say if something is good or bad- if you like it or you don't. |
| inference | reading between the lines. Taking what the author wrote and adding it to what you already know to make an assumption. |
| Prediction | making and educated guess as to what will happen next. |
| Viosualize | the ability to 'see' what you are reading. |
| compare and cntrast | compare means to show similarities and contrast means to show differences. |
| Expository text | text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic. |
| Fact vs. opinion | facts is it something that can be proben to be true. |
| Generalizations | when you make assumptions about different evernt and or characters and apply them to new situations. |
| Graphic organizers | and organizational picture, such as Venn diagram or webbing, that helps the learner identify the important elements. |
| Nonfiction | writing that is true and the purpose is to infron. |
| Paraphrase | restate in your own words. A parahrase is retelling of the reading selection that includes more than just the main ideas. |
| Sequential order | order in which the events in the story are presented to the reader. |
| Sequential order | order in which the eentsin the story are presented to the reader |
| Summary | a concise(short yet detailed) explanation of a reading selection. A summary contains only the main ideas. |
| Spporting details | details that suppport or back up the main idea of the passage. |
| Alliteration | the repetition f beginning consonant sound sin words in a sentence. |
| Figurative languages | language that connot be taken literally since it was written to creat a special effect. |
| Hyperbole | an exaggerated statement used to make a strong effect |
| Imagery | words and phrases used specifically to help the reader to iagine each of the senses |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as |
| Onomatopoeia | words whose sounds expressed their meaning |
| oxymoron | putting two contradictory words together |
| Personification | giving lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects. |
| Simile | a comparison between two unlike things by using the words like or as. |
| Symobl | an image, object, character,or action that stands for an idea beyond its literal |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces in literature |
| Characterization | the method an author uses to c9ommunicate information about the characters. |
| Character vs. character | a conflict between characters such as family conflict, trouble with a bully or difficulties in romance. |
| character vs. nature | a conflict between a charater and a foce in nature such as a tornado, avalanche, exreme weather conditions or any type of natural disaster. this type of conflict is external |
| Character vs. self | an internal conflict that takes place in a character's mind. |
| Climax | the moment when the action of the story comes to its highest point. |
| Expositions | the backgrounds information that the author probides about the setting, plot, character or other essential stotry elements. |
| falling action | the part of the story following the climax where there is a sharp decline in dramatictension; this occurs just before the resolution. |
| Fiction | any story that is the produc of imagination rather than fact. |
| Plot | the events that occur in the story beginning with the setting and ending with the resolution. |
| resolution | occurs at the end of a story and including the exposition, which builds to the climax. |
| rising action | the part of the story, including the exposition, which builds the climax |
| Anagonist | main character in opposition to the protagonist |
| Protagonist | the central character in a story that is tyhe"good guy" or the one with whon the reader identifies. |
| Dialogue | the actual wordd/converstaion that the character says to another character. |
| narrator | the speaker of the story. |
| point of vies | perspective from which the story is being told. |
| Limited point of view | the story is told from the view-point of a character; ass a result of the reader is only exposed to what that character experiences. |
| Omniscient point of view | "all knowing;' instead of being a character in the story the narrator is outside the story so the toughts of all of the characters are presented. |
| Antonym | a word that is the opposite of another word. |
| Context clues | information within the reading selection that helps the reader figure out the meanings of challenging words. |
| Homophone or homonym | twon or more words that are pronounced alike but have different meanings. |
| Prefix | letters added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning. |
| root words | a word to which prefixes and suffixes are added. |
| Suffix | letters placed at the end of a word to change its meaning. |
| Synonym | two or more words that have highly similar meanings. |
| Author's purpose | the author's reason or intenion for writing the selection. |
| Autobiography | the story of a person's life written by the person. |
| Biography | the story os a person's life written by another person. |
| Conclusion | the end of the reading selection. |
| Fable | a narrative intended to convey a moral or lesson the the reader. |
| Genre | catergories of literature such as biography, mystery, historical, sport and romance. |
| Flashback | technique in which the author interrupts the plot of the story to recreate and incident of an earlier time; flashback is ofter used to provide additional information to the reader. |
| Foreshadowing | tchnique in which the author porvides the reader whith clues abouyt events that will happen later in the story. |
| Irony | a difference between what is expected and what actally happens |
| Verbal irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant |
| Dramactic irony | occurs when there is a contradiction between what might be expected and what actually occurs. |
| Situational irony | occurs when there is a contradiction between what the character thinks and what the reader knows to be true |
| mood | the overall feeling created by the authopr's words. |
| setting | the environment of tyhime and place where the action of a story occurs |
| theme | the underlying message of the selection that the author is trying to convey or communicate to the reader |
| tone | the clues of the story that suggests the writer's own attitude towared elements in the story. |
| voice | THE AUTHOR'S STYLE,the quality that makes his or hers writing unique. |
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