STAAR Review - ENG I EOC

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

Is the use of descriptive language that use to the five senses to create a picture in your mind

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

A practice of forming a rhyme in only one lone line of verse.

Reviewing words for clarity, coherence, smooth transitions, and unity.

The perspective from which a literary work is told.

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a poem.

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

The idea that governs the entire text.

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

The central message in a literary text.

A major division of a play.

A subdivision of an act with a fixed setting or continuous time frame.

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

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

A poem that has 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter.

Words that sound the same and sometimes have the same spelling.

A decision based on evidence in a passage.

The term used to signal the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece.

The main part of the word.

The making of a casual or indirect reference to something.

A recurring object or concept within a play that enhances the theme.

Used to downplay the significance of something, often for ironic effect.

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

A three-line poem with seventeen syllables total.

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

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

Poetry with no strict meter of rhyme.

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

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

Gives the read facts, examples, and specific details about a topic.

Universal character types, situations, images, and symbols in a literary work.

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

The sequence of actions that an author employs to present and resolve a conflict.

The step by step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character.

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

These portray a geographic region.

The use of prewriting strategies to generate and organize ideas.

A less abrasive form of a negative description instead of its original, unsympathetic form.

Is a division of lines in a poem.

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

Another character in a story who contrasts with the main character.

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

A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.

A reference text that lists synonyms and antonyms.

A person, a place, or an object that represents something else or an abstract idea.

Is any element, subject, idea or concept that is present through the entire body of literature.

These are commonly found in instruction manuals to visually demonstrate how to perform a task.

Literature that is written in verse, or short lines.

A character in who has a complex personality. Like real people, they have depth.

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

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

A literary genre that makes the use of highly funny situations to entertain the audience.

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

When the purpose of writing is to tell a story.

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

An image, sound, action that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the theme.

A short literary composition on a single subject.

A comparison of two things that are largely dissimilar.

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

the main statement of a literary work that an author uses to convince readers.

Is the emotional weight a word carries.

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

a symbolism device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract, concept is conveyed.

Is an important literary tool that acts as the afterword once the last chapter is over.

A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true.

Repetition of sounds at the ends of lines.

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

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

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

A text to express ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, or ideas.

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

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

A deliberate exaggeration.

His or her reason for writing a text.

Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning.

Two sentences of contrasting meanings in close proximity to one another.

Sets of lines in a poem.

Data in these features are usually organized in rows and columns.

A literary device that is used as a descriptive device.

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

The stance a author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject.

Is a word's dictionary definition.

The writer's attitude toward the subject of the text.

Words that have the opposite meaning.

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

the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it to increase its worth.

Using available technology or peers to edit your sentence structure, spelling, and grammar.

A character in the story that is actually a counterfeit or a copy of a genuine character.

Poetry with a fixed structure.

Wordplay in which letters of a word are rearranged so that a new word or phrase is formed.

a literary device that establish a relationship based on similarities between concepts or ideas

When you give human characteristics to non-human objects.

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