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 a stanza?
A "paragraph" with in a poem/a group of three or four lines
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
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things without using like or as.
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
Name two ways you can prepare for the PSSA at home.
Get a good night's sleep Eat a healthy dinner the night before
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
What does it mean to summarize a story?
Tell what happened in the beginning, the middle and the end.
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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