Takes a strong and definite position on an issue or advises a particular action; tries to get the reader on your side.
What is a persuasive essay?
100
The advantage of this point of view is that you get to hear the thoughts of the narrator and see the world depicted in the story through his or her eyes or
in this rare instance, the author uses you and your.
What is 1st and 2nd person point of view?
100
Latin meaning: life.
What is bio-?
100
A statement that is exaggerated. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
100
Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
Takes the reader on a journey and includes specific details to make the incident come alive for the reader.
What is descriptive writing?
200
The author is an outsider looking at the action.
What is 3rd person?
200
A sandwhich but also an under ground way in Latin?
What is sub-?
200
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
200
A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words
What is figurative language?
300
Writing about meaningful relationships between events and their results.
A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.
What is a couplet?
300
The time and place of a literary work that establish its context.
What is setting?
400
A 7 sentence formula for PSSA sucess on the writing portion of the test.
What is WRITERS?
400
The reader enters only one character's mind and sees the action through his/her persepective or the thoughts of every character are open to the reader; almost "god-like".
What is 3rd person limited point of view and omicent Point of View?
400
The root word in dictate or dictation means this?
What is to say.
400
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
What is free verse?
400
The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization.
What is what is a theme?
500
The five catagories on the PSSA writing rubric.
What is Focus, Content, Organization, Style and convention?
500
The main character of a literary work
What is a protagonist?
500
Meaning the study of in Latin?
What is -ology.
500
The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with living qualities of a human being.
What is personification?
500
The conversation of characters in a literary work.