STAAR REVIEW!

A group of words whose meaning is different than the actual literal meaning of each word?

What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?

Details that support the main idea

The author wants to tell you how to do something or explain how something works

The author wants you to Enjoy the writing

What are the aspects of the characters personality?

What is a type of writing that is meant to express emotions?

Texts that describe a problem and possible solutions

What is giving human qualities to non human things?

What is the emotions of the characters?

Good readers do this in order to set a purpose for reading..

When the narrator has insight into the thoughts and feelings of ALL CHARACTERS?

What is the "paragraph" of a poem called?

What is an exaggerations that cannot possibly be true?

What the story is mostly about

What is a comparison between two unlike things by saying that one this is something else?

Something that someone believes or feels

Someone, Wanted, But, So, Then is a strategy for what?

The feeling or atmosphere created by the story. Reader centered

When a story is told from the perspective of a narrator who is not in the story?

What is an essay written from personal experience?

What is language that uses the five senses?

The author wants to give you information.

The play is divided into sections called

Heading, Subtitles, Labels, Maps, Photos, Captions, Sidebars, Graphs, Index, Table of contents.

What is language that does not mean exactly what is stays?

What is TRUE stories about REAL people's lives?

What is an account of a persons life written by that person?

What is the "sentence" of a poem called?

What is when a story is written in order of time?

Test that show how one things is the cause of another

A scene change usually means....

What is the problem of the story called?

Texts that describe events or procedures in a order of time

The author wants you to do, buy, or believe something

What is a historical account written from personal experince?

The paper that the actors read to perform the play.

The author wants you do visualize or experience a person, place or thing

Conversations between characters are called

Something that can be proven to be true

The attitude the writer takes towards the subject

What is the perspective of which the story is told?

How the text is structured or organized

Good readers do this when they use clues from a story to guess what happens next.

A sentence in a passage that states the main idea

What is language that is descriptive and detailed?

Good readers use details from the story to create a picture in their minds.

When a story is told from the perspective of ONE character in the story?

What is the events that make up a story?

What is the moral, message, or lesson of the story?

What is a story that is made up or not true?

Good readers use clues from the story and background knowledge to figure something out

Directions for the actors that are not meant to be read out loud

What is the time, place, and environment that the story takes place?

The purpose for writing is called the....

What is the type of language that you would use with your peers or friends?

Text that use details to explain or give information about a person, event, idea, etc.

The person who writes the play is called the...

Texts that tell how two things or ideas are similar and different.

What is language that you use in an academic setting?

A type of writing where people act out the story on stage.