STAAR Literary Terms

extreme exaggeration to emphasize

overall worldly lesson learned from the literary text

why the story was written (Persuade, Inform, Entertain)

representation of something non human with human characteristics

to communicate

reflection of a writer's attitude toward the subject of the literary work

literary form that uses rhythm and rhyme

to find similarities

to talk about or consider

main character in a literary work

Character or Force in conflict with the main character

words used in an imaginative way to express ideas

the overall idea of the story

struggle between opposing forces

feeling created in the reader by the passage

opposite opinion, to be unlike

position on a topic with evidence (claims, assertions, opinions, etc)

writing that is rooted in facts, based on true events

clear in statement, easy to find

to find differences

written conversation between two or more characters

a story that is not real, made to entertain the audience

how the author puts together the passage (cause & effect, sequencing, problem-solution, etc)

smaller section of a larger work

to draw a conclusion, guess based on text clues

understood but not clearly in words (hidden meaning)

the ending, what happens based on text clues