STAAR Terms

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This is writing that appeals to the senses.

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

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

Refers to repetition of sounds produced by vowels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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