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Spada PSSA Reading
Terms and Definition
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| connections | text to self,world,or text. the reader can connnect or relate to something else |
| evaluate | to examine and judge, to sayif something is good or bad- if you like it or you dont. |
| inference | reading between the lines. taking what the author wrote and adding it to what you already it to what you already know to make an assumption |
| prediction | making an educated guess as to what will happen next |
| visualize | the ability to "see" what you are reading |
| compare and contrast | compare means to show similarties and contrast means to show differences |
| expository text | text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic |
| fact vs opinion | fact is it something that can be proven to be true , and opinion is it just someone elses point of view |
| generlization | when youu make assumptions about different events and or charcters and apply them to new situations |
| graphic organizer | an orginial picture, such as venn diagram or webbing that helps the learner identify the important elemaents |
| nonfiction | wrting that is true and the purpose is to inform . nonfiction communications knowlge about real people, events,and or situations |
| prapharse | rests=ate in your own words . a parapharse is a 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 |
| summary | a concise (short yet detailed ) explanation of a reading selection a summary contains only the main idea. |
| supporting details | details that support or backup the main idea of the passage |
| alliteration | the repetio0n of begging constant sounds in words in a sentence. |
| figuartive language | language that can not not be taken litteraly since it was written to create a special effect. |
| hyperbole | an exaggerated statment used to make a strong effect |
| imagery | words and pharses used to specifically to help the reader to imagine each of the senses:smell,touch,taste,sight hearing |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as |
| onomatopoeia | words whose sounds express their meaning examples-snap,clap,buzz |
| oxymoron | puttingtwo contradicty words togetherexamples-jumbo shrimp,plastic glasses, pretty ugly |
| personifacation | giving lifelike charcteristics to inanimate objects |
| simile | a comparison between to unlike things by using the words like and as |
| symbol | an imag, object,charcter,or action that stands for an idea beyond its leteral meaning |
| conflict | struggle between opposing forces in literature |
| charectarization | the method an author uses to communicate info about charcters |
| charcter vs charcter | a conflict between charcters such as familyconflict, trouble, with a bully or difficulties in romance. this type is external |
| charctyer vs nature | a conflict between a charcter and a forece in nature such as a tornado, avalanche, extreme weather con ditions or any other type of natural diaster. this type is external |
| charcter vs self | an internal conflict that takes pace in a charcters mind. for example a charcter may have to deciede right from wrong |
| climax | the moment when the action of the story comes to its highest point. this usually occurs at the end of the story right before of the resoulation |
| exposition | the backround information that the author provides about the setting,plot, charcter or other essential story elemnts |
| fallning action | the part of the story following the cliamx where there is a sharp decline in dramitic tension, this occurs right before the resoulation |
| fiction | any story that is the product of imagination rather than fact |
| plot | the events that occur in the story beggining with the setting and ending with the resoulation |
| resoulation | occurs at the end of a story and includes the storys action after the climax |
| rising action | the part of the story, including the exposition, which buildsto the climax |
| antagonist | main charcter in opposition to thre protagonist; sometimesnot a person but an obstacle such as a force of nature, society or inner conflict |
| protagonist | the central charcter in the story that is the "good" guy or the ine with whom the reader identifies. |
| dialogue | the actual words/conversation that the the charcter says to another charcter |
| narrator | the speaker of the story |
| point of view | perspectivce from which the story is being told. the main points of view are first person,third person, limited and third person omniscient |
| limited point of view | the story is told from from the view-of-point of a charcter; as a result the reader is oly exposed t what the charcter expirences. first personpoint of view is always limitedand third personcan eityher belimited omniscient |
| omniscient pint of view | all knowing instead of being a charcter in the story, the nattor is outside the story so the thoughts of all charcters are persented |
| antoynom | a word that is the opposite of another word |
| context clues | info within the reading selection that helps the reader figuare out the meanings of challenging words |
| homophone or hmonym | two or more words thaT ARE PRONONUCED ALIKE BUT WITH DIFFERENT MEANINGS |
| PREFIX | LETTERS ADDED TO THE BEGGINING OF A WORD TO CHANGE ITS MEANING |
| ROOT WORD | A WORD TO WHICH PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES ARE ADDED |
| SUFFIX | LETTERS PLACED AT THE END OF A WORD TO CHANGE ITS MEANING |
| SYNONYME | TWO OR MORE WORDS THAT HAVE HIGHLY SIMILAR MEANINGS |
| AUTHORS PURPOSE | THE AUTHORS REASIN OR INTENTION FOR WRITING THE SELECTION. ALWAYS AK YOURSELF IS THE PURPOSE TO ENTERTAIN TO INFORM OR TO PERSUADE/SKIM THE SELECTION AND ATTEMPT TO SETERMINE THE AUTHORS PURPOSE BEFORE YOU READ THE SELECTION |
| AUTOBIAOGRAPHY | THE STORY OF A PERSONS LIFE WRITTEN BY THE PERSON |
| BIOGRAPHY | THE STORY OF A PERSONSD LIFE WRITTEN BYANOTHER PERSON |
| CONCLUSION | THE END OF THE READING SELECTION |
| FABLE | A NARRATIVE INTENDED TO CONVEY A MORAL OR LESSON TO THE READER |
| GENRE | CATOGORIES OF LITERATURES SUCH AS AS BIOGRAPHY, MYSTERY HISTORICAL SPORTS AND ROMANCE |
| FLSHBACK | TEQUINICE IN WHICH THE AUTHOR BRINGS BACK IN TIME |
| FORESHAWDOWING | TECHNIQUE IN WHICH THE AUTHOR PROVIDES THE READER WITH CLUES ABOUT EVENTS THAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE STORY |
| IRONY | A DIFFERENCE BETWEN what is said and waht actually happens.;2 types are dramatic irony and situationl irony |
| verbal irony | a contradiction between what is said and what is meant |
| dramatic irony | occurs when there is a contradiction between what might be excepected and actually occurs |
| situational irony | occurs wheb there is contradiction between what the charcterthinks and what the reader knows to be true |
| mood | the overall feeling create by the authors words |
| setting | the enviroment of time and place where the action of a story takes place |
| theme | the under lieingmessage of the selection that the author is trying to convey or cominucate to the reader. theme may be thougth of as the lesson or moral of the story |
| tone | the clues of the story that suggest the writers own attitude toward elements in the story |
| voice | the authors style the quality that makes his or her writing unique |
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