PSSA ELA REVIEW- 7th GRADE

Question 1

Headings, subheadings, charts, captions, tables, are all examples of

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text features

Question 2

What is theme?

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central message

Question 3

What does text-dependent question/prompt mean?

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The answer depends on the text.

Question 4

Personification, symbolism, metaphors, and similes are all examples of

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both literary devices and figurative language

Question 5

What am I looking for when a question asks, "What is the author's purpose?"

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the reason an author wrote something

Question 6

Biography, essay, speech, interview, textbook, are all examples of...

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non-fiction

Question 7

Which are the four types of writing?

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narrative, informational, explanatory, argument

Question 8

Historical fiction is

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based on the past with real and made up events

Question 9

Dialogue is more often found in

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drama

Question 10

"To determine" the meaning of a word or text, means to

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figure out

Question 11

Setting, characters, problem, solution, all have to do with...

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narrative

Question 12

First person, third person, the speaker, all have to do with...

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point of view

Question 13

It is important to write this before you start writing your essay...

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graphic organizer, an outline

Question 14

Which is an example of a theme?

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Love can be painful but worth it.

Question 15

What are the 5 parts of a plot diagram?

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exposition,rising action, climax, falling action, conclusion

Question 16

Ballad, haiku, ode, and sonnet are all forms of...

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poetry

Question 17

When you summarize, you...

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Take all the important information and put in own words.

Question 18

Redundancies are...

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boring, repeating similar words or phrases, something you should not do, saying the same thing over

Question 19

What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

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One compares using "like" and the other does not

Question 20

The word compound means...

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two separate things coming together

Question 21

The tone of a poem is about how the

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writer feels

Question 22

An essay requires how many paragraphs?

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5

Question 23

Chronological, problem-solution, compare-contrast, question-answer, are all examples of...

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text structure

PSSA ELA REVIEW- 7th GRADE

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PSSA ELA REVIEW- 7th GRADE

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