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RDNG STAAR Review
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What are the three parts of a summary?
Paraphrase
Middle
Beginning
End
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Attitude expressed through writing
Fact
Tone
Context
Opinion
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To deduce or conclude information from evidence and reasoning.
Make it up
Imagine
point and guess
Infer
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If you do not know the answer to a question
look for evidence in the passage
eliminate wrong choices
just pick C
Read it again carefully
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Clues that help you predict what will happen later in the story.
Inference
Drawing conclusions
Foreshadowing
Flashback
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The reason an author wrote something. (Persuade, Inform, Entertain and Explain)
Stage Directions
Author's Purpose
Figurative Language
Point of View
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Which is not a word for inference?
Conclude
Guess
Predict
Persuade
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When something happens in the opposite way than expected
Ironic
Infer
Context
Predict
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Events that make up a story.
Tone
Summary
Plot
Mood
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Where would you find a stanza?
in an informational text
in a personal narrative
in your backyard
in a poem
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onomatopoeia
Buzz
Sally Sold Sea Shells
Explosion
I've told you a million times
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Protagonist
the main character of the story. (normally the good guy)
the struggle between opposing forces
the repetition of a sound in poems
the character working against the main character of a story
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internal conflict...
conflict that is outside of the character's control
development of a character
emotional or mental conflicts of a character
the problems between the character and other people
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Why is author's purpose important in a written piece?
It gives the writer something to do
It isn't important
It helps the reader understand the passage
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persuasive techniques
facts that support an argument
way the author presents ideas (compare/contrast)
appeals to logic, ethics & emotions (logos, ethos & pathos)
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Metaphor is a comparison...
is a rhyming scheme
that equates two things without using like or as
uses like or as
is not important to know.
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Third Person POV - Omnicient
narrator tells from his/her own POV using "I, me, we"
narrator tells one character's POV using "he she they"
narrator has "all knowing" POV of character using "he, she"
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Climax
The solution to a problem
The setting of the story
the turning point of a story
the rising action of a story
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Which of the following is not a form of figurative language?
Conflict
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Metaphor
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If the question is confusing you might try...
Asking the teacher
looking it up in the dictionary
cheating on your neighbor
giving up
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Define - Imagery
Making your own original story
Drawing pictures next to your notes to help you remember
The formation of mental images, figures, or likeness
Order of the events that happen in the story
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A brief statement or account of the main points of the idea.
Tone
Plot
Sequence
Summary
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Which 3rd person
point of view means the narrator knows thoughts n feelings of all characters?
limited
omniscient
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Third Person POV - Limited
narrator is "all knowing" of all character's POV
told from the narrator's POV using I, Me, We
narrator tells one character's POV using he, she, they
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The setting of the story includes...
main characters
time and plot
conflict
time and place
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To be successful on STAAR, you
MUST
do which of the following?
all of the above
READ, & RE-READ questions, answer choices, parts of passage
THINK about what you're reading & what you already know
Look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary
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Hyperbole is used to show
opposite meaning
exaggeration
Wrong choices
comparison
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first person point of view
told from the narrator's POV using the pronouns I, me, we
POV where reader sees only 1 character's thoughts
POV using the pronoun you
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If you come across any words that you do not know on the STAAR Reading test, you should
ALL of the ABOVE
READ ALL DEFINITIONS AND FIGURE OUT WHICH ONE IS BEST
USE CONTEXT CLUES IN PASSAGE TO SEE WHICH DEFINITION MATCHES
USE A DICTIONARY TO LOOK UP THE BEST DEFINITION
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Why do we determine the genre of a text before reading?
Because Ms. Miller says so...
To understand the purpose for reading
So we can read it.
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To draw a conclusion, the reader needs
a sketchbook
textual evidence
the answers
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Something that stands for or represents something else is a
summary
stanza
sensory image
symbol
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alliteration
repetition of an entire phrase in a poem
repetition of a vowel sound within a sentence
repetition of the same word in a poem
repetition of the beginning sound of words in a phrase
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration
Tone
Stanza
Irony
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Antagonist
a struggle between two forces in a story
the author's attitude toward the subject in the story
the main character of a story
a character working against the main character in the story
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An autobiography will always be written in what point of view?
1st person
2nd person
3rd person
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textual evidence is...
final unraveling of the solution to a plot
to examine something in great detail
direct quote from the passage to support answer
the way the author presents his ideas
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The theme in a story is the ...
Conflict
Climax
Solution to the Problem
Lesson/message
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Flashback
when the writer provides hints to the future events in story
the author's attitude towards the subject
when past events are presented & told-during present action
an extreme exaggeration
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stage directions
lines spoken by characters in a play/drama
instructions given to actors on stage inside (parenthesis)
a person who writes plays and is in complete control
drawings of the play/drama
