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PSSA Reading Glossary Test

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of 108 available terms

5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Foreshadowing
  2. Accuracy
  3. Possessive
  4. Secondary Source
  5. Limited view
  1. a A form of a noun or pronoun that indicates belonging to someone or something. (usually apostrophe and s. Michael's boat.
  2. b Correctness or precision.
  3. c Hinting at future events without actually telling them.
  4. d Text and/or artifacts that are not original, but written from something original (biographies, magazine articles, research papers).
  5. e In a story, the narrator is usually one of the characters and only knows what is going on in his own mind, not in other characters' minds.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Form of writing where the author is "all-knowing" and can share each character's thoughts or past.
  2. The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. The structure often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the resolution.
  3. A word or group of words in a writing which speak to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell.
  4. The part of a story where the plot becomes increasingly complicated, leading up to the climax.
  5. The story of a person's life written by someone else.

5 True/False Questions

  1. Expository TextText written to explain and give information about a topic.

          

  2. RhythmRecounting in your own words a story or article that has just been read.

          

  3. AssertionWords that repeat beginning consonant sounds (Ted tiptoed toward two tiny trees.)

          

  4. ResolutionWriting that is factual, not creative or fictional.

          

  5. EvaluateWriting which tells a story or relates events or dialogue