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WP PSSA Prep Vocab5
PSSA Vocab Noll 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The author's intent either to inform or teach someone about something. | author's purpose |
| Mechanics, usage and sentence completeness. | conventions |
| A device used in literatre to create expectation or to set up an explanation of later developments. | foreshadowing |
| A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content. | genre |
| A judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement. A conclusion based on facts or circumstances. | inference |
| The author's central thought; the chief topic of a text expressed or implied in a word or phrase; the topic sentence of a paragraph | main idea |
| The prevailing emotions of a word or of the author in his or her creation of the work. | mood |
| The structure of a story. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. | plot |
| To capture all the most important parts of the original text, but express them in a much shorter space in the reader's own words. | summarize |
| A topic of discussion or writing; the main thing the author wants the reader to take from the text. | theme |
| The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters. Ex. serious/humorous | tone |
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