Practice for the PSSA
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| show | The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. (Sarah sells sea shells by the seashore)
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| show | The author’s opinion or feelings as evident or detailed in a text about a topic. Not to be confused with first-person, second-person, etc., point of view.
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| Author's purpose | show 🗑
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| Cause and effect | show 🗑
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| Central idea (also called Controlling point or Main idea) | show 🗑
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| show | The thesis statement or main point that forms the basis for an argument within a text. The author's viewpoint or "where they stand" on an issue (for or against).
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| show | To place characters, situations, or ideas together to show common and/or differing features in literary selections.
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| show | A relationship or association between one or more individuals, ideas, or events.
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| Convey | show 🗑
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| Demonstrate | show 🗑
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| show | Conversation between characters or speakers in a literary work, referring specifically to the speech of characters in a drama.
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| Evaluate | show 🗑
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| Evidence | show 🗑
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| Focus | show 🗑
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| Generalization | show 🗑
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| Genre | show 🗑
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| show | An exaggeration or overstatement (e.g., I had to wait forever).
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| Inference | show 🗑
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| show | To give reasons through an explanation to convey and represent the meaning or understanding of a text.
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| show | An important point or idea in a text.
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| Key event | show 🗑
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| Personification | show 🗑
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| Plot | show 🗑
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| Recount | show 🗑
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| Relevant | show 🗑
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| show | The order in which events take place within a story.
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| Setting | show 🗑
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| show | A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used (e.g., The ant scurried as fast as a cheetah).
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| Stanza | show 🗑
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| show | One of the essential components of a story (e.g., character, setting, plot).
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| show | How information within a text is organized (e.g., chronology,comparison/contrast, cause/effect, problem/solution, question/answer).
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| show | The author’s choices regarding language, sentence structure, voice, and tone in order to communicate with the reader.
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| Summarize | show 🗑
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| Text feature | show 🗑
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| Theme | show 🗑
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| Tone | show 🗑
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