Duplicate of PSSA Terms

What is text that tells a story?

What is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally?

What is a lyric poem of fourteen lines with a fixed rhyme scheme?

What is the subject or major argument of a speech or composition?

What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?

What is an exaggeration or overstatement?

What are tools used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the writing?

What is NOT an example of personification?

What is the author's style?

What is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between 2 things without as?

What is descriptive writing that is intended to allow a reader to picture the scene or setting?

What is an implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event?

What is the text written to explain and convey information about a specific topic?

What is a device used to present action that occurred before the beginning of the story?

What is the attitude of the author toward the audience and characters?

What is one of two or more words pronounced alike, but different in spelling or meaning?

What is the use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning?

What is meter?

Which point of view uses words like "I," "me," and "my"?

What is a light or humorous verse form of five lines?

What is the perspective from which the story is told?

What is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences?

What is the "all knowing" point of view?

What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words?

What is a long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero?

What appeals to one or more of the senses?

What is a collection of words that expresses an emotion or idea?

What is the center of interest or attention?

What is NOT an example of an onomatopoeia?

What involves mechanics, usage, and sentence completeness?

Which type of poetry lacks regular rhyme patterns?

What is a device used in literature to create expectation or to set up an explanation?

What is nonfiction text that conveys factual information?

What is a word composed of two or more smaller words?

What is a noun or noun phrase that renames a noun right beside it?

What is conversation between people in a literary work?

What is the study of meaning in language?

What is an identical/very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of a line?

What is a literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness?

What is rhythm?

What is a device in literature where an object represents an idea?

Which is the point of view that uses "he," "she," and "it"?

What is a form of a noun that indicates possession?

What is an expression that cannot be understood if taken literally?

What is an assertion?