STAAR Terms

A subject is implied to be another so as to draw a comparison between their similarities.

When a story is told from the understanding of all the characters.

The base topic or focus that acts as a foundation for the entire literary piece.

The associations people make with words that goes with the literal or dictionary definition.

Refers to the use of the dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word.

When words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound.

This is what is expected to happen, doesn't.

This is the emotion that author intends the reader to feel.

This is how the reader feels after reading a piece of literature.

This literary device is used when a person, concept, or theme is placed parallel to another.

When comparing two or more things using "like" or "as".

This is when an author references a place, event, or literature in passing.

What is the use of an exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech?

This is when the story is told from one person's point of view

This is the focus of the essay and tells the reader what the story is about.

This refers to the actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing.

This is used to suggest an upcoming outcome to the story.

Used for expressing a resistance the protagonist of the story finds in achieving aims/dreams.

This refers to the use of concepts/ideas that are contradictory to one another.

This is writing that appeals to the senses.

This is a literary device that depicts the manner in which a story is narrated.

Refers to repetition of sounds produced by vowels

Literature that refers to the practice of making fun of a human weakness or character flaws.

Refers to words whose very sound is very close to the sound they are meant to depict.

This topic will raise the curiosity of the reader and make them ask questions.

This means a short verbal accounting of a funny, amusing, interesting event or incident.