PSSA Vocabulary

Identifying the ways in which different things relate to one another

A word or phrase in bold print that show the text's topic or theme

Does prefix mean a group of letters placed at the end of the word to change its meaning?

Define Conflict

A judgment based on a personal point of view?

Does Conclusion mean the ending of a story?

Language that cannot be taken literally because is was written to create a special feeling

A type or category of literature

A synonym is a word that means the opposite of another word?

To tell how two or more things are different

Text includes literary elements and devices normally found in fiction, but it tells about real people, places, or events

Tools used by the author to make the story interesting

Does personification mean giving human qualities, feelings, or actions to something that is not human

A non fiction text, written to charge factual information

Does author's purpose mean how the author wrote it?

Does Summerize mean to retell the most important part in a short way using your own words?

What is the definition of Simile

A group of letters placed at the end of a word to change its meaning

What does Biography mean?

Does antonym mean a word that is opposite of another word?

A major idea that is the topic of discussion or writing

Words that can have several meaning depending on how its used in a sentence

Define Style

What is the definition of Content Specific Words

Does dialogue mean people fighting with each other?

Does affix mean one or more letters at the beginning or end to create a different for of word?

Define Focus

The author's most important point, usually found in the topic sentence

What does Cause mean?

Information from text that reveals the meaning of an unfamiliar word

What does Exaggeration mean?

A story that is not true; is is created in the author's imagination

What does plot mean?

To tell how to or more things are alike

A group of neighboring words that begin with the same sound

Does setting mean what the characters are doing?

A conclusion based on facts, reasoning, and reading between the lines

To make distinctions between two or more things?

Factual writing that explains, informs, or describes

Words that students are expected to know

What is Paraphrase?

A type of text that tells a story