PSSA Grade 6 ELA Vocabulary Part 2

device used in literature to create expectation or set up an explanation of later developments

One afternoon, a year and a half before... is an example of what literary device?

The lake was a moonlit mirror.

“I'm so hungry, I can eat a horse." is an example of what type of figurative language?

The prevailing emotions of a work or of the author in his or her creation of the work

Word/phrase meaning exact opposite of literal meaning; actual result is different than expected

an object or abstract idea given human qualities or human form

Factual writing designed to explain, argue, instruct, or describe rather than entertain.

The intense chocolate aroma reached her nostrils and distracted Mandy from completing homework.

The author's central thought; the topic sentence of a paragraph.

personification, simile, alliteration, metaphor, hyperbole, imagery are examples of...

Personal point of view; relates events as they are perceived by a single character.

The use of words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning. (hiss, meow, bang, boom)

the narrative perspective from which to see actions and look into the minds of characters.