Warm-Up Vocab Words
20 PSSA Vocabulary Words used as Warm-Ups
Terms
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- hyperbole
- intentional exaggeration
- root word
- the word left when all affixes are removed
- alliteration
- repeated sounds at the beginning of neighboring words
- theme
- the topic of writing; a major idea that covers the entire literary work
- infer
- to reach a conclusion by making judgments about a number things
- imagery
- a word or group of words that appeal to the senses and provide the reader with mental images
- bias
- a judgment based on personal point of view; prejudice
- summary
- a brief, informative writing presenting the main parts of another piece of literature
- synonym
- a word with the same meaning as another
- fluency
- written or spoken with ease
- possessive
- having ownership
- generalization
- a conclusion drawn from information that is used to make a broad statement about a topic or person
- tone
- the attitude of the author/overall feeling presented by a piece of literature
- narrative
- a story
- homophone
- a word that sounds the same as another but is spelled differently and has a different meaning
- affix
- a word attached to another word to change its meaning
- prefix
- an affix attached to the beginning of a word to change its meaning
- persuade
- to try and convince others to think the same as you
- antonym
- a word with the opposite meaning of another
- personification
- giving an inanimate object qualities of a human