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What is personification?
What is main idea?
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What is main idea?
What the lesson is
What a text is mostly about
Something only in a movie
How the author feels
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What is personification?
When a dog talks
When you give an animal human characteristics
When you give a rock actions
When you give a nonliving object human characterisitics
3
Which of the following is NOT a genre?
mysteries
poetry
science fiction
Maya Angelou
4
What is a good test taking strategy?
annotate the text
Read the questions before the text
Cross out any illogical answers
guess
5
What is the difference between main idea and theme?
Main idea is a lesson and theme isn't
Theme can be applied to more than 1 story
Main idea is specific to one text
Nothing
6
How many days is the ELA PSSA?
4
2.5
3
2
7
Which is an example of alliteration?
Michael wanted a new car
Polly punched Pookie for putting paste in pans
Pam cam sat on a hat
rat, mat, sat
8
What is onomatopoeia?
adjectives
sound words
nouns
action words
9
Which of the following is an oxymoron?
open secret
the grass is always greener on the other side
seriously funny
boom! hiss! squeak!
10
Define tone
Compares two things
How the author feels about a character or subject
How your teacher feels about something
How you feel about something
11
Which of the following is a metaphor?
She eats like she's been starved for months
She is like a summer's day
She grows faster than a weed
She is a summer's day
12
What is theme?
An idea about life that can be applied to more than 1 story
One word
What a text is mostly about
The moral or lesson
13
Define metaphor
compares two things using is/are/were
onomatopoeia
compares two things using like or as
Contrasts two things
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What does TDA mean?
Text Does Add
Take Dat Apple
Text Dependent Analysis
To Deem Appropriate
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How many sentences MINIMUM go in a body paragraph?
6
2
8
4
16
Pronouns such as he, she, him, her
third person
first person
first person limited
second person
17
What belongs in a TDA body paragraph?
quote and quote explanation
topic sentence
analysis
all of the above
18
What is a phrase?
has subject OR predicate. not both.
has a subject and predicate
IDK
some rude saying
19
What is an anology?
random information
something found in a story
a comparison between two things
uses like and as
20
What should you carefully read on the test?
just the passages
EVERYTHING!
the charts
most directions
21
Define mood
How the author feels about a story
how the author feels about a character
word choice
How you feel when reading a text
22
What is a noun?
an action word
a person, place or thing
a describing word
yo momma
23
Which is a verbal functioning as a noun and ending in -ing?
gerund
adjective
noun
verb
24
What is the scoring scale for TDA questions?
0-4
1,2,3,4
A,B,C,D
0-5
25
What is an infinitive?
IDK
to + a verb
a fancy noun
a short story
26
What is a clause?
contains two predicates
contains two subjects
contains three words
contains a subject and a predicate
27
How many TDAs will you write?
none. no thanks.
3
1
2
28
What belongs in a TDA introduction?
thesis
all of the above
title and author
define any terms or concepts
29
How many paragraphs is a TDA response?
1 long paragraph
3 paragraphs- introduction, body, conclusion
2 paragraphs- introduction and conclusion
4-5
30
What is a tip for compare/contrast passages?
just read the shorter one
Read one passage first and answer those questions, then read the second one
annotate both right away
Panic! They're hard!
31
What does third person ominiscent mean?
Narrator is obnoxious
narrator shares thoughts and feelings of 1 character only
narrator not part of story but shares all character feelings
Narrator shares own thoughts and feelings
32
Which of the following are text structures?
description/sequence/compare.contrast
sequence, process, cause and effect
compare/contrast, sequence, main idea
sequence, chronological, tone
33
Which of the following is NOT a genre?
fables
realistic fiction
tall tales
short answer
34
Which are the coordinating conjunctions?
FANGIRLS
SWAIB
SWISH
FANBOYS
35
What are the sections in a poem called?
lines
paragraphs
ideas
stanzas
36
What can you include in a TDA conclusion?
restate your thesis and state how everything connects
1 sentence
tell your opinion of the text
just re-state your thesis
37
How do you analyze a text?
close read
all of the above
look at word choice, structure, and genre
annotate (mark it up)
38
What is a verb?
a place
an action
a subject
a describing word
39
What does an adverb do?
describes yo momma
describes a verb
describes a noun
describes an adjective
40
Which are examples of second person point of view?
it/they
me/mine
you/yours
him/we
41
What is an adjective?
an action
a thing
a describing word
a place
42
Shoe is to foot as:
glove is to hand
hat is to bat
summer is to no school
snowman is to snow
43
Why are you going to try your best on the test?
Because you are prepared and know the material
Because you have good test taking strategies to use
Because it is very important for high school
Because you owe it to yourself to do your best
44
What is an example of hyperbole?
open secret
I was so hungry I could eat a horse
She is lovely like a painting
Boom! Bang!
45
What is the difference between mood and tone?
mood is for teenagers and tone is for adults
they're actually the same thing
they both have to do with books
tone is the author's attitude and mood is the reader's
