STAAR VOCABULARY REVIEW

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

The way a story, or text, is organized

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

The snow is a white blanket on the ground.

Supporting a statement with information from the text

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

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

The opponent in a story, who opposes the hero

All events leading up to the climax

Where and when a story takes place

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

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

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

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

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

The teacher heard the distinct crunch of Ruffles potato chips.

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

Events after the climax leading to the resolution

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

Determined, compassionate, foolish

Words with opposite meanings

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

End of the story where loose end are tied up

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

To tell or make known

Describe, illustrate, show

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

This genre of writing includes characters and setting

Words that imitate sounds

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

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

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

When a portion of a story goes back in time

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

A comparison NOT using the words like or as

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

Guessing about what might happen in the future

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

Words that have the same meaning

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

An important lesson that teaches the reader about fight and wrong

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

What a paragraph orpassage is mostly about

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

The sequence of events in a story

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

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

A statement that can be proved

This baclpack weighs as much as an elephant!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gives clues that suggest what might happen in the future

The message or the lesson of the story

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

Characters, setting, and initial conflict are introduced

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

Tugging on the reader's heartstrings

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

The quality of a character; what a character is like

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

simple and difficult are examples of

Apples make a delicious snack.

Ideas that help support the main idea

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

The sun glared down at me from the sky.

Writing that is not factual, from your imagination

overjoyed and thrilled are examples of

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

This genre of writing explains someting, gives information

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

A true story about real people and real events

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

The order in which things happen