STAAR Review - ENG I & II EOC

Words that have the opposite meaning.

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

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

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

A deliberate exaggeration.

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

Is the emotional weight a word carries.

Is a division of lines in a poem.

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

Poetry with no strict meter of rhyme.

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

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

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

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

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

Sets of lines in a poem.

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

A major division of a play.

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

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

His or her reason for writing a text.

Poetry with a fixed structure.

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

When you give human characteristics to non-human objects.

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

A decision based on evidence in a passage.

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

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

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

A reference text that lists synonyms and antonyms.

Repetition of sounds at the ends of lines.

When the purpose of writing is to tell a story.

Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning.

A comparison of two things that are largely dissimilar.

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

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

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

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

Is a word's dictionary definition.

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

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

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

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

A three-line poem with seventeen syllables total.

Literature that is written in verse, or short lines.

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

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

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

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

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a poem.

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

A short literary composition on a single subject.

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

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

The main part of the word.

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

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

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

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

The making of a casual or indirect reference to something.

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

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