Story Elements
Literary Devices
Grammar
TDA First Sentence
Study Skills
100
The time and place of a story
What is setting?
100
The repeating of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
100
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence
What is a verb?
100

What should I do with the prompt?

What is restate the prompt?

100
I should eliminate an answer that I know is immediately wrong. 

What is multiple choice question?

200
people and animals in a story
What are characters?
200
An excessive overstatement or exaggeration of fact
What is hyperbole?
200
People, places, things, or ideas
What is a noun?
200

I am someone who should be included in the sentence.

Who is the author of the passage?

200

True or False: I should get a good night's rest and eat breakfast before the PSSA testing.

What is true?

300
The events and conflict that occur in a story
What is plot?
300
A common expression that has acquired a meaning that differs from its literal meaning
What is an idiom?
300
Describes or modifies a person, place, thing, or idea in the sentence
What is an adjective?
300

I should be included in the sentence after or before the author. 

What is the title of the passage?

300

Words such as NEVER, ALL, NONE, ALWAYS usually make a statement __________.

What is false?

400
The problems or challenges that the characters must face or overcome in the story
What is conflict?
400
The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms “like” or “as"
What is a metaphor?
400
A word that takes the place of a noun
What is a pronoun?
400

I am sometimes forgotten but should be included. I explain what type of passage was read.

What is the genre of the passage?

400

Words such as FREQUENTLY, USUALLY, SOMETIMES, GENERALLY usually make a statement _______.

What is true?

500
An idea leading to the moral of the story
What is the theme?
500
The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas
What is personification?
500
A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb, answers the questions: how, when where, to what extent
What is an adverb?
500

Most TDA's begin with the words...

According to the author/passage...

500

First, next, afterward, finally, second, lastly are examples of these words.  

What is sequencing words?

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