STAAR Review - ENG I EOC

The perspective from which a literary work is told.

A literary work intended to be performed by actors for an audience.

Gives the read facts, examples, and specific details about a topic.

The making of a casual or indirect reference to something.

The idea that governs the entire text.

a literary device where the author uses phrases that exaggerate the basic statement.

Attempts to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way.

The writer's attitude toward the subject of the text.

The repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words.

Is a person in a narrative work of arts (such as a novel, play, television series or film).

Words that sound the same and sometimes have the same spelling.

When the purpose of writing is to tell a story.

These are commonly found in instruction manuals to visually demonstrate how to perform a task.

A person, a place, or an object that represents something else or an abstract idea.

The sequence of actions that an author employs to present and resolve a conflict.

The main part of the word.

A three-line poem with seventeen syllables total.

Is the emotional weight a word carries.

Reviewing words for clarity, coherence, smooth transitions, and unity.

Repetition of sounds at the ends of lines.

A practice of forming a rhyme in only one lone line of verse.

A less abrasive form of a negative description instead of its original, unsympathetic form.

Using available technology or peers to edit your sentence structure, spelling, and grammar.

A literary device where a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

Universal character types, situations, images, and symbols in a literary work.

A literary device that is used as a descriptive device.

Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning.

Used to downplay the significance of something, often for ironic effect.

These portray a geographic region.

His or her reason for writing a text.

Is a direct comparison of two unlike things, using the word like or as.

A recurring object or concept within a play that enhances the theme.

A type of text that addresses actual people, events, places, or other real-life subjects.

An educated guess based on information and evidence combined with the reader's knowledge.

a symbolism device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract, concept is conveyed.

The term used to signal the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece.

The stance a author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject.

A literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event.

the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it to increase its worth.

Happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage.

A reference text that lists synonyms and antonyms.

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a poem.

The style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.

Literature that is written in verse, or short lines.

Two sentences of contrasting meanings in close proximity to one another.

Is the use of descriptive language that use to the five senses to create a picture in your mind

A literary device using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful.

Occurs when the reader or audience knows something that a character does not.

a literary device that establish a relationship based on similarities between concepts or ideas

The use of prewriting strategies to generate and organize ideas.

Data in these features are usually organized in rows and columns.

A literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event.

Letters added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning.

Is a word's dictionary definition.

A major division of a play.

A poem that has 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter.

When writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation.

These describe the setting and tell the actor what to do in a play.

Poetry with a fixed structure.

A character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist.

A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true.

A comparison of two things that are largely dissimilar.

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or other work.

The central message in a literary text.

A long speech delivered by one character, usually to another character.

Is a set of letters attached to the beginning or the end of a root word.

A short verbal accounting of a funny, amusing, interesting event or incident.

Letters added to the end of the word to change its meaning.

Words that have the opposite meaning.

Is an important literary tool that acts as the afterword once the last chapter is over.

A character in the story that is actually a counterfeit or a copy of a genuine character.

A deliberate exaggeration.

Is any element, subject, idea or concept that is present through the entire body of literature.

A character in who has a complex personality. Like real people, they have depth.

An alphabetical list that defines important words or terms used in a book or other text.

A reference source of words listed alphabetically with their meanings, origins, & pronunciation

A short literary composition on a single subject.

A text to express ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, or ideas.

the main statement of a literary work that an author uses to convince readers.

A subdivision of an act with a fixed setting or continuous time frame.

Is a division of lines in a poem.

The step by step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character.

Another character in a story who contrasts with the main character.

Wordplay in which letters of a word are rearranged so that a new word or phrase is formed.

A decision based on evidence in a passage.

A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.

A speech delivered by one character while he or she is alone onstage.

When you give human characteristics to non-human objects.

Poetry with no strict meter of rhyme.

A literary genre that makes the use of highly funny situations to entertain the audience.

Words whose very sound is very close to the sound they are meant to depict.

An image, sound, action that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the theme.

Sets of lines in a poem.

Using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful.