8th Grade STAAR Review

A stanza in poetry is like a _____ in a narrative story.

_______ is an extreme exaggeration used to make a point. The opposite of an understatement.

Type of conflict in which the main character's conflict is a law or rule

The combination of ways an author shows readers what a person in a literary selection is like.

To strengthen your ideas & opinions with examples, facts, or evidence is to add _____ details.

The message, usually about life or society, that an author wishes to explore in a literary work

Type of conflict where the main character's conflict is with themselves

A state of heightened anticipation & tension, from events in or the setting of a story.

The key point made in a passage is called its ____ idea.

This is a work of literature, especially a play, that is comical and has a happy ending.

This is whoever will be reading, listening or watching a story, text, or drama.

The lake was left shivering by the touch of winter.

These are the people or animals who take part in a literary work.

When a character or the author reflects back on a time from the past.

Choose the hyperbole

Type of conflict in which the main character's antagonist is something from the environment.

Irony is when

This is a method of relating how two or more elements or texts are SIMILAR.

These are the facts or details that back up a main idea, theme, or thesis.

The force that acts against the main character in the story.

This is the reason for creating written work that informs, persuades, or entertains.

This is the time and place in which a literary work happens.

Narrator or writer who puts their own opinions, feelings into telling the action in literature.

Imagery is writing or speech that appeals to which of the 5 senses below

Onomatopeoia is the use of words that

This is the attitude that an author takes toward the audience, the subject, or a character.