PSSA+Vocabulary+Week+1

Directions: Cut and paste the correct definition next to one of the words below. Include your name at the end of the definition.

Affix: One or more letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning or end of a word or base and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form ( E.G., prefix or suffix).NickZimmerman Alliteration:** An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event. Andrea Bealonis Analysis:--**the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements (opposed to synthesis) faint Assertion: Author's Purpose: why they did this or why they tell it about Author's Thesis: Autobiography:**The story of a person's life written by himself or herself. Madison LaMantia Biography: Cause and Effect:** Cause statements stem from actions and events, and effects are what happen as a result of the action or event Arik Koontz :-)
 * Accuracy: The condition or quality of being true- Chandler Mical
 * Allusion:imigry Natasha
 * Antonym:** A word that is the opposite of another word (e.g. hot-cold, night-day) (maddie bonner)
 * Appositive:
 * Bias:
 * Characterization:**The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities. Dylan Hughes =D
 * Climax:**The turning point in a narrative, the moment when the conflict is atits most intense; Typically the structure of stories, novels, and plays is one of rising action, in which tension builds to this point ian marple


 * Compare:**
 * 1) //Correctness and precision//
 * 2) One or more letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning or end of a word or base and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form (e.g., a prefix or suffix)
 * 3) A word that is the opposite of another word (e.g. hot-cold, night-day)
 * 4) An implied or indirect reference in literature to a familiar person, place, or event.
 * 5) The process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another.
 * 6) A judgment based on a personal point of view Also called apposition; a grammatical construction in which two usually adjacent nouns having the same referent stand next to one another; often separated by commas (e.g., My father, Ned, worked for NASA.)
 * 7) A declaration, statement, allegation, or claim
 * 8) The author's intent either to inform or teach someone about something, to entertain people, or to persuade or convince their audience to do or not do something
 * 9) The topic and a specific feeling or idea associated with it. The thesis can be directly stated or implied in the examples and illustrations used by the author.
 * 10) Placing together characters, situations or ideas to show common or differing features in literary selections
 * 11) The story of a person's life written by himself or herself.
 * 12) The repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work
 * 13) The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various personalities
 * 14) The turning point in a narrative, the moment when the conflict is atits most intense; Typically the structure of stories, novels, and plays is one of rising action, in which tension builds to this point
 * 15) Cause statements stem from actions and events, and effects are what happen as a result of the action or event