PSSA review 1
Story Elements
PSSA review 2
PSSA Review 3
Figurative Language
100
If you are reading a set of directions, what is the authors purpose?
To inform
100
What do we call the people or animlas the story is about?
Characters
100

when a character is struggling within their own mind

internal conflict

100
What is the "main idea" of a story?
What the story is mostly about.
100
What is comparing two things using like or as?
simile
200

the character or force that in conflict with the main character

Antagonist

200
What are two things setting might include?
Place, time, period of history, landscape, weather
200
What does it want you to do if it asks you to "compare and contrast"?
Tell how things are the same and different
200
Synonym
What are words with the same meaning?
200
What is a statement using words that have a different meaning than usual?
Idiom
300
What do we call it when they want you to guess what will happen next in a story?
Predict
300
What is the high point of excitment in the story?
Climax
300
What is a story's morale or basic message called?
Theme
300
What is a book about a person's life?
Biography
300
What is Two or more words having the same beginning sound?
alliteration
400

everything that happens after the climax in the story that leads to the solution

falling action

400
What is the problem in the story called?
Conflict
400
What does it mean if we see words on the test that are in bold face or underlined.
They will probably ask questions about that word or it is important in some other way.
400

a writer or character says something that is the opposite of what that person really means

verbal irony

400
What is words that sound like a noise?
onomatopoeai.
500
What is the first thing you should do when given a reading passage.
Read the title and look for any headings, pictures, or bold words.
500
What is the solution to the problem in the story?
Resolution
500
What are details that make characters who they are such as appearance, thoughts, feelings, and actions? Example would be "outgoing".
Character traits
500
What are words with opposite meanings?
Antonym
500
What is an exaggeration?
hyperbole
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