PSSA ELA Practice

the act of finding the ways two passages or characters differ.

The teacher was a dragon today! What figurative language is being used?

A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

Placed after the root- Added to the end of the word and changes the word meaning or function.

Narrator sees the world through only one characters eyes and thoughts.

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

adjectives used to describe a character's personality and actions.

The central idea of a work of literature. The main lesson of a story

The narrator uses "He," "She," and "It" when referring to a person, place, thing, or idea.

Words that are spelled the same, but has a different meaning. ex: pen/pen

A word that means the same as another word

Text structure that reveals the reason something happens and the result of it happening

A conclusion, drawn from specific information, - a broad statement about a topic or person.

Mrs. Whinnie, my fifth-grade teacher, is a Pittsburgh graduate. The bold phrase is a/an

You were as brave as a lion.

"Mindful Mr. Ewert mended my socks." What literary device is being used in this sentence?

A person, place, thing, or idea

Re-tell the story by listing the most important events

A word used to join words or groups of words

A series of related events in a story, each connected to the next.

expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to the rest of the sentence. "Hey" "Wow"

An action word

Placed before the root - Added to the beginning of the word and changes the meaning.

a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence

the act of finding qualities two passages or character share.

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is an example of

A conversation between characters in a story.

Which word(s) are examples of onomatopoeia?

The author's intent to inform or teach , to entertain, to persuade, to convince

A belief or view about something

The POV told by the character that uses the first person pronoun "I".

"My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning." The literary device used is ____.