Language Arts PSSA Vocab
This is a set to help study for the pssa, i guess.
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- Genre
- A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content (e.g., prose, poetry).
- Characterization
- The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities.
- Figurative language
- Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.
- Alliteration
- The repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.
- Antonym
- A word that is the opposite of another word.
- Fluency
- The clear, easy, written or spoken expression of ideas. Freedom from word-identification problems which might hinder comprehension in silent reading or the expression of ideas in oral reading.
- Compare
- Place together characters, situations or ideas to show common or differing features in literary selections.
- Context clues
- Information from the reading that identifies a word or group of words.
- Focus
- The center of interest or attention.
- Conventions of language
- Mechanics, usage and sentence completeness.
- Evaluate
- Examine and judge carefully.
- Allusion
- An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place or event.
- Analysis
- The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.