PSSA ELA Review - All 60

What should you do when reading EVERY PSSA question, text, and prompt?

What does REDUNDANT mean?

Which sentence shows possession?

Propaganda/persuasion technique claiming that everyone is doing something

Persuasive newspaper or magazine articles that present opinions of editors or publishers

Human qualities given to non-humans

Words that are opposite in meanings

Each TDA body paragraph must contain a statement to prove the thesis, PLUS ...

A story about somebody's life written by THAT person

Words with the same meaning

Which corrects the run-on? Jim is buying a new house he can host the next party.

The turning point in a story; highest point of interest

A TDA essay must be at least ____ paragraphs.

Propaganda/persuasion technique involving criticism of the competition

Text structure in which many details are provided about a topic

What does your conclusion paragraph in your TDA response need to include?

The central message or the thesis of a text

Words or a group of words that appeal to the 5 senses

Text structure that includes information chronologically

Hints or clues that are given to the reader about what is yet to come...

Propaganda/persuasion technique that uses a celebrity to endorse a product or idea

Which of the following contains an appositive?

Which is a fragment?

Which of the following nouns is a PROPER noun?

Which of the following might you consider if you are asked about the STRUCTURE of a text?

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

Words and expressions that cannot be taken literally

Judgement based upon an individual's personal experiences and beliefs

POV in which the narrator knows several or maybe all characters' thoughts/feelings

An object that represents an idea

A struggle between a character and an outside force (another character, fate, nature, etc)

POV in which an outside narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of only one character

A direct comparison

Comparison of two things using the words like or as

The part of the story when the conflict is resolved

Sounds that express meaning (such as ring, whisper, boom)

After reading a TDA prompt and then REreading the text, what should you do next?

POV using I, we, us, our, my, me...

A character who changes or learns/grows during the course of a story

What will make my teacher very happy in regard to the PSSAs?

Technique involving stating something more than once for effect

The feeling created by a text (such as excitement, sadness, humor, etc)

Which stages are in the correct order in regard to plot?

Propaganda/persuasion technique that distracts audience with irrelevant information

An extreme exaggeration

What two things must be included in the introduction paragraph of your TDA?

A text called "How to Build an Awesome Lego City" probably fits which text structure (mostly)?

An UNtrue literary work based on imagination, not real life

The method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities

A nonfiction text structure in which case one event leads to another

A story about a person's life written by another person

The part of plot where the characters, conflict, and setting are introduced

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

Recognizing an opposite opinion to demonstrate awareness in a persuasive/ argumentative text

Saying the opposite of what one truly means

The writer's reason for writing something: to inform, to entertain, to persuade

The opinion statement (thesis) of a persuasive/argumentative text

In a TDA, what must prove the thesis statement?

Which of the following is a common noun and thus should NOT be capitalized?

Appeal to the reader's emotions instead of logic or reasoning