Mrs. Eoff's STAAR Review - ENG I EOC

An alphabetical list that defines important words or terms used in a book or other text.

What is the author's attitude toward the reader or subject called?

A literary device using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful.

These describe the setting and tell the actor what to do in a play.

Is the emotional weight a word carries.

Attempts to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way.

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or other work.

A deliberate exaggeration.

A literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event.

Letters added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning.

Is a person in a narrative work of arts (such as a novel, play, television series or film).

Is the use of descriptive language to appeal to your senses and create a picture in your mind

How can you best prepare to write your essay?

What kind of essay is on the English II STAAR?

Is a set of letters attached to the beginning or the end of a root word.

The main part of the word.

A character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist.

The style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.

a literary device where the author uses phrases that exaggerate the basic statement.

How long is the English II STAAR?

A literary device where a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

A comparison of two things that are largely dissimilar.

A long speech delivered by one character, usually to another character.

Which of these does an essay thesis NOT have to do?

An educated guess based on information and evidence combined with the reader's knowledge.

A literary work intended to be performed by actors for an audience.

Is a word's dictionary definition.

A short literary composition on a single subject.

Words that have the opposite meaning.

What should you do if you don't know how to spell a word, or don't know what it means?

A speech delivered by one character while he or she is alone onstage.

The repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words.

Gives real facts, examples, and specific details about a topic.

Occurs when the reader or audience knows something that a character does not.

Sets of lines in a poem.

Using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful.

A major division of a play.

Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning.

When the purpose of writing is to tell a story.

The central message in a literary text.

Letters added to the end of the word to change its meaning.

A type of text that addresses actual people, events, places, or other real-life subjects.

Is a direct comparison of two unlike things, using the word like or as.

Happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage.

Literature that is written in verse, or short lines.

A reference source of words listed alphabetically with their meanings, origins, & pronunciation

A reference text that lists synonyms and antonyms.

When you give human characteristics to non-human objects.

Repetition of sounds at the ends of lines.

When writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation.