PSSA prep 1 Benjamin alveari

Problem & Soultion

A text structure where a problem is

introduced and a solution is resolved.

Literary
Terms

•Flashback ; An interruption to a story to tell about events that happened earlier.

•Paradox ; A statement that appears to contradict itself but upon further inspection reveals a deeper truth, meaning, or joke.​

•Fact ; a Fact is a statement that you can check or prove with
evidence (proof)

•Character traits ; Words that describe character's personality or
qualities that make them who they are.

•Exaggeration ; A statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is.​

•Plot ; The sequence of events that make up a story.

•Narrator ; The voice of the story.

•Allusion ; A reference made to a famous person, place, or event.

APOV (Author's Point of View).

• Author's Point of View is when the author is trying to get their message

through to the reader, and they are explaining in detail their opinion on the
passage/story that they have written (The message could be a cliché, or a
custom message that the author personally wanted the reader to understand
from the text).

Genre

• Biography; A summary of someone's life (typically in sequential order),

written by someone else than the person in the biography.

• Expository Text; The text structure Expository Text is a non-fiction text

structure that shows facts and information about a topic.

Vocab skills

• Synonyms: are words that have the same or almost the same meaning.

• Homographs: words that are spelled the same but don't sound the same or have the same meaning.

• Context cools & tools: words that help you understand a unknown word.

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