English I Staar Review

When an author provides clues or hints about the future in a story:

The sequence of events in fiction or drama:

A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea:

The words spoken by the characters in a drama or story:

The author's or narrator's attitude toward a subject:

A guess based on information and evidence in a text and the reader's prior knowledge

The perspective from which a story is told:

A narrator that is in the story and tells the story from his point of view:

When reading the passages, be sure to

A major division of a play:

Which word has a positive connotation?

In drama, a long speech delivered by one character to another:

A comparison of two unalike things, using the words like or as:

The students were ready for the test, and they knew they could pass it. This sentence is:

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in a literary work:

The bulk of a story, during which the character works to resolve the problem:

Which word has a negative connotation?

A list of sources cited in a research paper:

A speech delivered by one character while alone on stage:

The problems that the characters in a story must solve:

A shorter division of an act in drama:

A word's dictionary definition:

When the reader or audience knows something that a character does not:

A character who serves as a contrast to another character:

The emotional associations carried or implied by a word:

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

The narrator is not a character in the story:

What is the very first thing you should do on the test tomorrow?

The turning point in a plot when a character deals directly with a conflict:

When writing your essay, be sure to:

A comparison of similar qualities between two things that are not similar:

The persons for whom an author writes a text:

A set of lines in a poem:

A word that shows action or a state of being:

The central message or lesson of a literary work:

When working on the revising portion of the test:

What should you always use while taking the test?

Tonight you should:

A person or animal in a story, play, or poem:

The location and time in which a story takes place:

What is the most important sentence in your essay?

An extreme exaggeration:

Giving an animal or object human-like qualities:

A comparison of two unlike things:

After taking the STAAR test, the students were relieved and very confident. This sentence is

Literature written in verse or in short lines:

The ending of a story, when the conflict is resolved:

Words that have the opposite meaning:

The main idea of an essay or a research paper:

An essay that explains and analyzes a topic: