Wilburn English Staar Review

A character who serves as a contrast to another character:

When working on the revising portion of the test:

The main idea of an essay or a research paper:

The emotional associations carried or implied by a word:

The bulk of a story, during which the character works to resolve the problem:

Tonight you should:

A shorter division of an act in drama:

The turning point in a plot when a character deals directly with a conflict:

The location and time in which a story takes place:

A major division of a play:

Which word has a negative connotation?

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in a literary work:

The students were ready for the test, and they knew they could pass it. This sentence is:

Giving an animal or object human-like qualities:

After taking the STAAR test, the students were relieved and very confident. This sentence is

When reading the passages, be sure to

An essay that explains and analyzes a topic:

The narrator is not a character in the story:

The author's or narrator's attitude toward a subject:

A speech delivered by one character while alone on stage:

a person, place, thing, or idea:

The sequence of events in fiction or drama:

Literature written in verse or in short lines:

When an author provides clues or hints about the future in a story:

A word that shows action or a state of being:

When the reader or audience knows something that a character does not:

The problems that the characters in a story must solve:

The ending of a story, when the conflict is resolved:

A narrator that is in the story and tells the story from his point of view:

Words that have the opposite meaning:

A person or animal in a story, play, or poem:

What is the most important sentence in your essay?

The words spoken by the characters in a drama or story:

A word's dictionary definition:

The central message or lesson of a literary work:

A set of lines in a poem:

A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as:

An extreme exaggeration:

A guess based on information and evidence in a text and the reader's prior knowledge

When writing your essay, be sure to:

A comparison of two unalike things, using the words like or as:

A comparison of similar qualities between two things that are not similar:

The perspective from which a story is told:

Which word has a positive connotation?

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

What should you always use while taking the test?

Choose the sentence fragment.

In drama, a long speech delivered by one character to another: