STAAR VOCABULARY REVIEW

The message or the lesson of the story

The words that give actors instructions on what to do in a play

A comparison NOT using the words like or as

Guessing about what might happen in the future

This genre of writing includes characters and setting

The teacher heard the distinct crunch of Ruffles potato chips.

The method an author uses to create the appearance and personality of imaginary characters in a piece of fiction

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor.

A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get."

simple and difficult are examples of

The main character in a story, novel, drama, or other literary work

A story about a person's life written by that person

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"

An important lesson that teaches the reader about fight and wrong

The reason the author has for writing (Inform, persuade, express, or entertain)

A time at which a devisive change in a situation occurs, especially one with beneficial results

Things such as heading, bulleted lists, and graphics that help a reader find important information.

The narrator is a characterin the story. The story is written using "I" and "me".

Characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by traditions and customs

Language that evokes images and triggers memories in the reader of the 5 senses; sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell

A text structure that presents a problem and offers solution to solve the problem

The clues around a bold or underlined word that help the reader know what the word means.

Brief explanation or description of an illustration, photograph etc..

All events leading up to the climax

A pattern of nonfiction text in which ideas are presented in the order they occurred

Fiction that involves an event in history. Contains historical facts, events, or people, but is not true

The snow is a white blanket on the ground.

Supporting a statement with information from the text

Characters, setting, and initial conflict are introduced

The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage

A statement that can be proved

A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

This genre of writing explains someting, gives information

What a paragraph orpassage is mostly about

A pattern of nonfiction text in which two ideas are presented for their similarities and differences

Apples make a delicious snack.

This baclpack weighs as much as an elephant!

The sequence of events in a story

The order in which things happen

A text structure that represents the reason something happens and the result of it happening.

The way a story, or text, is organized

The narrator is not a character in the story. The story is written using "he" , "she", and "they"

The repeated use of words or phrases in order to emphasize a point.

To tell or make known

The quality of a character; what a character is like

The paragraphs of a poem, a group of lines in a poem

The sun glared down at me from the sky.

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.

The narrator tells the story using the pronouns "You", and "Your" to address a reader or listener directly

Events after the climax leading to the resolution

Words that have the same meaning

Describe, illustrate, show

Conversation between two characters in a story in which quotation marks are places around the words said to each other

overjoyed and thrilled are examples of

End of the story where loose end are tied up

Drawings or photographs that help explain what is going on in the text

Tugging on the reader's heartstrings

Words that imitate sounds

The opponent in a story, who opposes the hero

Ideas that help support the main idea

When a reader uses clues from the text plus what they alreadt know about real life to draw a conclusion

When a portion of a story goes back in time

Using and object or word to represent something else. Anything that stands for or represents something else.

The main problem the character faces, the struggle between opposing forces that brings the action within a story.

Gives clues that suggest what might happen in the future

Writing that is not factual, from your imagination

Where and when a story takes place

Determined, compassionate, foolish

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.

The turning point of the story. This is the highest point of interest/tension in the story.

A true story about real people and real events

The story of a person's life written by another person.

The attitude of the author toward the subject that he/she is writing about. Ex: serious or humorous

A reason that explains or partially explains a character's thoughts, feeling, actions, and speech

Words with opposite meanings

A type of literature that is meant to be acted on a stage

A drawing that shows or explains something...usually includes labels and captions