PSSA Vocabulary List 3
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- genre
- a style or kind of literature (ex. fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama)
- narrator
- person telling the story
- inference
- guess based on a known fact
- sensory words
- words that describe something we can taste, feel, hear, smell, or see
- characters
- people who are in the story
- valid generalization
- a true statement
- third person
- someone on the outside of the story who is telling the story (he, she, they)
- drama
- literature written to be spoken and performed on stage (skits, plays)
- first person
- one of the characters tells the story (I, me, we)
- conflict
- main problem faced by the main character(s)
- point of view
- the position or angle from which a story is told
- main idea
- what a passage is mainly about
- rhyme
- words that have the same vowel sounds and the same final consonant sounds (ex. cat, sat, hat)