8th Grade STAAR Review

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

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

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

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

Irony is when

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

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

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

Onomatopeoia is the use of words that

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Choose the hyperbole

The lake was left shivering by the touch of winter.

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

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

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

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

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

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