PSSA Review Power Point

By, Shannon Fera

Terms To Know!

Hasty Generalization

Red Herring

Appeal to Fear False Cause

Bandwagon

Hasty Generalization

• To jump to the easiest, quickest, most obvious conclusion without enough examples to support it. (Your teacher can't speak French, you can't speak French, therefore, no one in this class can speak French.)

Red Herring

• Something that’s designed to distract your attention away from the subject.

False Cause

• An incorrect or misleading comparison

Band Wagon

• The message is: "Our product is so good that everyone buys it. You should too." (If a product is very popular, does that necessarily mean it is good?) Comes from 19th century political campaign slogan "jump on the bandwagon."

Appeal to Fear

• If you don’t do certain thing, something bad will happen.

Prefixes To Know!• Re -- again, back repeat, recede, regress (step back)

• Un -- (Latin: one, single)

• Mis --(Anglo-Saxon: bad, harsh, wrong; always a prefix)

• De -- down, away, descend, deject (cast down)

• Dis -- (Latin: apart, asunder; away, from; in different directions; utterly, completely)

Suffixes To Know!

• Able-- able (uh buhl; depending on word to which it is attached)

• Ous-- (Latin: full of or having the qualities of;

• Ment-- (Latin: a suffix; result of, means of, act of; place of action)

• Ness– state of • Ful– full of characterized by

Other Terms To Know!

irony: method of expression in which the ordinary meaning of a word or situation is the opposite of the thought in the speaker's mind; when the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs.

Other Terms To Know!

• pun: a humorous use of a word where it can have different meanings; a play on words with almost the same meaning.

Other Terms To Know!

• figurative language: metaphors, simile, personification used to enhance comparisons. Metaphor: a comparison between two unlike things that are alike in one way, does not use "like" or "as." Simile: a comparison between two unlike things that are alike in one way, use "like" or "as." Personification: giving human characteristics to inanimate objects or animals.

Other Terms To Know!

• allusion: a reference to a person, a place or event from a word of literature, myth, the Bible, history, sports, science, the arts, etc.

Tips On Testing!

• GET A GOOD NIGHTS REST! YOU ALWAYS THINK BETTER WHEN YOUR WELL RESTED!

Tips On Testing!

• EAT BREAKFAST IN THE MORNING IT WILL WAKE YOU UP AND STIMULATE YOUR BRAIN!

Tips On Testing!

• STUDY! YOU WILL KNOW ABOUT YOUR TESTING LONG IN ADVANCE LOOK OVER TERMS SO YOUR AWARE WHEN THEY APPEAR ON THE TEST!

Tips On Testing!

• TAKE THE TEST SERIOUSLY IT COUNTS! IT DETERMINES YOUR FUTURE DO YOUR BEST THIS TIME!

Tips On Testing!

• TAKE YOUR TIME!! YOU WILL HAVE AS MUCH TIME AS YOU NEED! IF YOU RUSH YOU WILL MISS THINGS THAT ARE VERY IMPORTANT!

How I Took The Test!

• I followed all my testing tips. • Took the test 100% seriously.• Tried my very hardest!• Believed I could do it.• AND DID!