Figurative Language
Basic PSSA
Questions About Poems
Literacy
Strategies
100
What is personification?
Giving human characteristics/qualities to an object.
100
Why do you number paragraphs?
So use can reference them when you write your constructed response.
100
How do you number a poem?
Each line.
100
How do you know a text is a Narrative text?
Plot, Setting, Characters and dialogue
100
What are the 3 steps to "TAG - It"
Turn the question around to start your answer. Answer the question. Give evidence.
200
Give a synonym for hyperbole.
Exageration.
200
What does the "T" in Tag stand for?
Turn the question around to start your answer.
200
What is 3/8 as a percent?
What is 37.5%
200
What does an expository text do?
Gives information.
200
What is the highest score you can get on a constructed response?
3
300
What is a simile?
Comparing to unlike things using like or as.
300
Can you underline as you read the text?
YES!!!
300
Is there a lot of figurative language in poems?
YES!
300
If you are asked to compare and contrast in a constructed response, what do you have to do?
Name things that are similar and different.
300
If you are asked to give AT LEAST two reasons........what does that really mean?
2 or more
400
What is this an example of?
The sandy sea shore seems salty.
400
What is the distance around a circle called?
What is circumference
400
Many questions about poems have you: A) make inferences B) draw pictures C) write your own poem
A
400
What does it mean to make an inference?
Use the knowledge from the text and your prior knowledge to make a "guess."
400
Name 2 examples of Lawyer Talk
According to paragraph...... I know this because......
500
What is a synonym and what is an antonym?
Synonym = same meaning Antonym = opposite meaning
500
Why should you use process of elimination?
If you're not sure of the answer, cross of the ones you know are wrong, that way you increase your chance of getting it right if you have to guess.
500
What is a main idea?
A phrase that describes what the passage is mostly about.
500
You may see...poems, expository text, and narrative texts...what else may you see?
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500
If the question doesn't tell you how many reasons to give, what is Mrs. Fowler's rule?
2 or more
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