PSSA Vocabulary
Analyze Figurative Language
Texts We've Read
Measuring Up p. 263
from The Gardens of Kyoto
Identify Conflict
100
The part of the story that builds the conflict and develops the characters. Leads to the climax.
What is rising action?
100
Abandoned by his friends, he felt like a tiny boat adrift in the vast ocean.
What is simile?
100
The Bluest Eye p. 69 The narrator says she and Frieda experienced a "minor epiphany" when they discovered a flaw in Maureen. From clues in the passage, what do you think the word "epiphany" means?
What is an experience of sudden realization?
100
Why did the teacher need clearances before taking his class on the field trip?
What is "it took place during wartime"?
100
A child with allergies vs. flowers
What is external conflict, man vs. nature?
200
The point in a story when the major problem is resolved.
What is resolution?
200
The approaching storm was a ferocious tiger waiting to pounce.
What is a metaphor?
200
The Rockpile p. 473 How does Roy disobey his mother?
What is "he leaves the house to go play when she tells him not to"
200
Q.2 This paragraph suggests a contrast between
What are the normal activities of children and the dangers of war?
200
Roger vs. Ms. Luella Bates Washington Jones in "Thank You Ma'am"
What is external conflict, man vs. man?
300
The attitude of the author toward the audience and characters.
What is tone?
300
The waves embraced the drowning man in their powerful arms.
What is personification?
300
Yet Do I Marvel P. 339 Name two allusions Countee Cullen uses in "Yet Do I Marvel".
What are Tantalus and Sisyphys?
300
Q.3 Write a sentence from the passage that shows the Japanese children in this story represent children everywhere.
What is "A picnic was planned and the children carried their bento boxes close to them and walked in straight and even lines when instructed and did not bicker in the way that all children, Japanese, America, what have you, will bicker."
300
The type of conflict in James Baldwin's, "My Dungeon Shook".
What is external conflict, man vs. society?
400
An insight into life expressed in a work of fiction. A generalization, or broad statement, about the human condition.
What is theme?
400
We must have thanked our hosts a thousand times for their generosity.
What is hyperbole?
400
In "My Dungeon Shook", p. 601, What is Baldwin's "dispute" with his country? (The crime he accuses his countrymen of)
What is "that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it."
400
Q.4 The narrator uses two similes to show that the sound of the tiny wings was
What is sudden and barely there?
400
You are feeling very worried because you forgot to turn in your project that is worth 10% of your grade.
What is internal conflict, man vs. self?
500
Hinting at events that will happen later in a story
What is foreshadowing?
500
Her business was so successful that people often said she hd the Midas touch.
What is allusion?
500
Ain't I A Woman p. 170 Sojourner Truth's first point is directed against the statement that women need to be treated with special consideration. What does she say to expose the hypocrisy of this position?
What is "Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place"
500
The theme of this story deals mainly with
What is "innocence and beauty destroyed by warfare"?
500
In the Twilight series, Bella must choose whether or not she wants to become a vampire.
What is internal conflict, man vs. self?
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