PSSA Vocabulary Set 1

What are the three reasons we write? (Author’s purpose for writing)

• Persuade, Inform, Electrify

• Persuade, Inform, Educate

• Persuade, Infer, Entertain

• Persuade, Inform, Entertain

Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously
• A hint at something that will happen later
• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

What is description in figurative language?

• A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes in the reader

• a detailed statement that describes a setting, characters, or events

• A detailed statement describing a setting

• The ending of an episode or book leaving the reader in suspense

to draw a conclusion based on evidence

• infer
• cite
• literal
• explicit

What is suspense in a story?

• A feeling of excitement or anxiety about what will happen next in a scene.

• A detailed description of the setting in a story.

• The resolution of a conflict in the plot.

• A character's internal thoughts and feelings.

What is a cliffhanger?

• 
  The events after the climax

• A type of exaggeration

• 
  A detailed statement describing a setting

• 
  The ending of an episode or book leaving the reader in suspense

Ways to organize texts or your writing; You can use sequence, question/answer, compare/contrast, cause/effect, or problem/solution.

• Genre

• Setting

• Text Structure

A story's atmosphere or the feeling it evokes in the reader

• humorous
• matter of fact
• sympathetic
• mood

A plot mechanic in which a future event is revealed.

• Foreshadowing

• Flashback

• Flashforward

• Unreliable narrator

the order in which events occur, or the arrangement of events in the order in which they occur 

• Evidence

• Chronology

• Alphabetical order
• Argument