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PSSA vocabulary-read
vreading vocabulary for 5th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a pattern of rhythm in a poem | meter |
| information that can be proven | fact |
| something that happens as a RESULT of a cause | effect |
| a passage that gives you facts without trying to make you feel a certain way | informational passage |
| Giving human qualities to animals and objects | personification |
| the person who tells a story | narrator |
| a figure of speech that compares two different things without using the words "like or as" | metaphor |
| the reasons why a character does something | motive |
| a viewpoint or personal belief that cannot be proven true or false | opinion |
| a kind of guess you make about what is happening, based upon what the narrator tells you | inference |
| what a story or passage is mainly about | main idea |
| the main series of events in a story | plot |
| A base word used to make a bigger word | root |
| an alphabetically arranged list of key terms, with page numbers, found in the back of a book | index |
| a type of writing that describes a sequence of events; a story | narrative |
| a short title that comes before a page or paragraph, telling you what the topic of the page or paragraph will be | heading |
| what a character feels | emotions |
| the order in which things happen | sequence |
| the time and place in which the events of a story occur | setting |
| the things that a character does | actions |
| the person who wrote the story, article, play, drama, or other passage | author |
| the reason why something happens | cause |
| the most exciting or important part of the story | climax |
| using the text and sentences around a word to figure out what it means | context clues |
| teling how things are different | contrast |
| a spoken conversation between characters | dialogue |
| words that have opposite meanings | antonym |
| a group of letters added to either the beginning or end of a word | affix |
| the things that a character does | actions |
| the process of solving a problem, or making less conflict in a story | solution |
| the part of a plot, usually in the beginning of a story, that sets out the main problem or struggle | conflict |
| a character's qualities | traits |
| a brief description of a story or event, telling only the main idea of the passage and the most important details | summary |
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