7th Grade READING STAAR Review

The message or lesson of a story

Describing a text's main idea, important details, and overall meaning in just a few sentences.

The perspective from which a story is told

Sound words- "pow" "buzz" "swish"

A story about someone's life

The use of clues by an author that suggest events that have yet to occur

What are the different reasons that an author writes a text?

The use of a word or phrase more than one time--used to emphasize

Example - The tree danced in the breeze

A struggle between two opposing forces

Words, phrases, or sentences around a word that help determine an unknown word's meaning

Can be proven with data, observations, and reliable sources

Example - The earth is a green blanket

Text that explains, describes, or informs

Tells a made up story that may or may not be likely to happen in real life

What is a playwright?

Example - Elizabeth is as fast as a cheetah.

The feeling created IN THE READER by a literary work or passage

Language that appeals to the five senses

Where you should look to help you find definitions

An educated guess based on evidence in the text combined with your own prior knowledge is ----.

In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.

Includes stage directions and dialogue

Words or instructions in a play that are written in italics and enclosed by parenthesis

In poetry, the repetition of sounds at the end of words at the end of a line or verse