PSSA Terms 1-40

the use of words that mimic sounds.

To examine the likeness and differences of two people, ideas, or things

The quality or feeling conveyed by the work; manner of author expression

The use of clues to give readers a hint of events that will occur later on

The feeling the author creates for the reader

Words with opposite meanings

a word or phrase that has become overly familiar or common place

A personal point of view or belief

The moment in a story when the action reaches its greatest conflict...

the story of a person's life written by himself or herself

Figurative Language used to compare two things USING like or as

Placing story events in order of their occurance

The method used by an author to give readers information about a character...

A repetition of sounds of initial, or beginning sounds in two or more consecutive words...

A piece of information that can be proven...

Figurative Language where an inanimate object is given human characteristics 

The perspective from which a story is told

The time and place where the story occurs

Parts of a literary work that represents conversation between characters...

Fiction represented in a setting true to the history of the time in which the story takes place

The part of the plot from the falling action to the end where all conflicts are worked out

A story handed down from earlier times; its truth is accepted but cannot be verified

The character who tells the story

the use of a thing, character, object or idea to represent something else

Language that appeals to the senses, the of vivid descriptions to produce mental images

The insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological sequence of a narrative

words with similar meanings Ex. Difficult and hard

an exaggerated statement used to heighten effect.

True to life fiction; the people, places, and plot are similar to those in real life...

Description of one thing in terms usually used for something else... EX: smilies, metaphors

A figure of speech that compares 2 unlike things WITHOUT the use of like or as...

a word composed of 2 or more smaller wordsEx. wallpaper, bookstore, hallway

The relationship in which one condition brings about another condition as a result...

Type of writing that tells a story

The main source of drama and tension in a literary work...

a saying whose meaning can't be understood from the individual words in it.

the main idea of a literary work; the meassage the author wants to communicate,

the story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work

a comparison based upon the resemblance between things that are otherwise not alike...

The use of words to express the opposite of their literal meaning