6th Grade STAAR Vocabulary Review

Meant to explain or describe. 

How a text relates to the world.

What the characters say to each other.

Retell only the most important ideas and details.

The reason an author writes a selection and/or includes certain information in a selection.

Told by a character in the story. Uses pronouns such as I, me, my, mine, we.

To give more information about the main idea.

Make a judgment about something.

Instructions that tell the actors what to do or how to say their lines. (Usually in italics).

How a writer chooses to arrange information, such as sequence, cause/effect, problem/solution. 

Gives human qualities to nonhuman objects.

Message or lesson that the story is trying to express.

Relationships between two texts.

Tools writers use to create effects in a text, such as figurative language.

Compares two things by stating that one thing is or was another.

A word part, such as prefixes and suffixes.

Organizational structure-If it rains again today, the ground will be too wet to dig our garden.

To judge the quality of something. Helps to sort out facts and opinions.

A person, an animal, or an imaginary being in a story.

To convince

A word that has an affix added to it. 

Lets readers know who is telling the story.

How a text relates to your own life.

To restate what a writer said in your own words.

Part of the plot where events reach their highest point of tension.

Part of the plot that occurs after the climax.

The words or sentences around an unknown word.

Affixes added to the beginning of a root word.

The repetition of a line or group of lines, which adds to a poem's rhythm, or beat. 

Conclusion based on clues, or evidence, and what you already know.

Told by someone outside the story and uses pronouns such as they, them, he, she, and their.

What a paragraph or selection is mostly about.

When and where the story takes place. 

The use of exaggeration to make a point.

Also known as the resolution of the plot. Brings the selection to its conclusion. 

Compares two things by using the words like or as.

The person who tells the story.

Affixes added to the end of a root word.

Describes familiar things in new and surprising ways. Ex.-simile, metaphor, hyperbole

Type of organizational structure that shows how things are alike and different.