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WorksheetsELA PSSA Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is the central idea of a text?
The message or main idea.
A summary of the text.
The purpose.
The emotional response.
What are the parts of a plot diagram?
Exploration, Rising Action, Climax, Downfall, Death
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resume
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
Exposition, Rising Action, Conflict, Falling Action, Resolution
What does R.A.C.E.S stand for in essay writing?
Resolve, Answer, Cite, Explain, Summary
Restate, Awesome, Cite, Explore, Sumarize
Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain, Summarize
Restate, Answer, Site, Explain, Summarize
What do you look at to find the central idea?
Subheaders
Topic Sentences
Last Paragraph
First Sentence
What is figurative language?
A way of expressing ideas creatively.
A genre of literature.
A way to explain ideas.
How fancy someone talks.
Which of the following are emo bands?
iPrevail, Taylor Swift, Michael Jackson
Metallica, Pantera, ACDC
My Chemical Feelings, Fallout Boy, Panic at the Disco
Fallout Boy, Panic at The Disco, My Chemical Romance
What is characterization?
The description of the setting of the story.
The act of creating and describing characters in stories.
The personality of the characters.
The Point of View the story is told in.
Why is the climax important?
The drama unfolds.
Characters face the main conflict or enemy.
The character's problems are resolved.
The characters have a crying session together and eat cake.
What is an "allusion"?
A trick to the eye.
A reference to another literary work, recipe, movie, etc inside of a cake in a story.
A reference to something that happened in the character's past.
A reference to another literary work, music, movie, etc inside a book or story.
What are the three types of author's purpose?
To inform, engage, and persuade
To inform, entertain, and persuade
To insinuate, entertain, and persuade
To inform, entertain, and propose
Which of the following is NOT a type of poetry: Black Out, Narrative, Love, Sonnet, Limerick,
Sonnet
Black Out
Love
Narrative
What's the difference between mood and tone?
Mood is your emotions after reading and tone is the author's attitude towards the subject.
Tone is your emotions after reading and Mood is the author's attitude towards the subject.
Tone is when you hear the character's voice easily and Mood is their emotion in the scene.
Mood is when you hear the character's voice easily and Tone is their emotion in the scene.
What type of figurative language compares things with like or as?
Alliteration
Metaphors
Similes
Foreshadowing
What type of figurative language is an exaggeration?
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Why should you use the R.A.C.E.S. structure for writing an essay on the PSSAs?
Because they hate us.
Because they look for you to restate the question, cite evidence, and thoroughly explain your evidence.
Because it makes it easier for them.
Because test readers are mean.
