STAAR DEFEAT VOCABULARY LIST 1-100

Giving a lot of knowledge

Her hope was a fragile seed.

Max is the fastest thing on two feet.

I went home and made the biggest sandwich of all time.

KIsses are the flowers of love in bloom.

to persuade, inform, or to entertain (the reason an author writes)

She hung her head like a dying flower.

using like or as to make comparisons

Old Mr. Johnson has been teaching here since the Stone Age.

making comparisons without using like or as

convince by writing or speaking

I'd move mountains for her.

Forms or types of writings.

words that are sounds

The river flows like a stream of glass.

The candle flame danced in the dark.

When words have the same end sound

Scars are the roadmap to the soul.

Her hair was as soft as a spider web.

to say or write more that is true

The wheels of justice turn slowly.

Cutting or witty remark.

to show that you know something by giving proof or evidence

Justice is blind, at times, deaf.

We are all shadows on the wall of time.

Thunder grumbled and raindrops reported for duty.

A funny imitation.

Words such as BOOM! ZIP!, HISS!, BEEP!!, POW!!

The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue.

Still waters shivered in the wind.

The airplane landed as gracefully as a ballerina.

Making a comparison using like or as

A literary selection.

My mom is going to kill me.

figurative language using sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell

how the author or character sees the events in the story

A type of language in a country, region or area.

Grandpa lounged on the raft in the middle of the pool like an old battleship.

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To classify

The gray moss drapes us like sages.

to tell what has happened before

to tell what you read in a couple of sentences

Allie has a million pairs of shoes in her closet.

The world does not care to  hear your sad stories.

Kyle looked at the test with a stare as blank as his notebook.

He sang a lonely song to the moonlight.

When a words pronunciation imitates its sound.

Our society needs strong leaders.

when a speaker intends something entirely different than what is said

The business world would chew you up and spit you out.

same sounding words

read quickly

A comparison that does not use like or as.

The city never sleeps.

writing in verse

the person telling the story

Her eyes are like the eyes of statues.

She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

to tell what will happen

The lesson was taking forever.

the events in the story; the problem, climax, resolution 

I can smell pizza from a mile away

The clouds pushed each other around in the sky.

I can't do anything right.

to give an object human characteristics

Peggy heard the last piece of cheesecake in the refrigerator calling her name.

to talk, quotation marks show dialogue-   e.g."Hi"

funny

Visually descriptive images; figurative language that appeals to the senses

draw conclusion; to use clues to gather the rest of the information

Language that appeals to the senses.

a reference to a person, event, or place in history or in another well-known work of literature

I've seen this movie at least 80,000 times.

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reach a general conclusion

explain; to give a reason why

Nobody can beat level six.

The cast on Michael's broken leg was a plaster shackle.

Laughter is the music of the soul.

Christmas will never come.

Her eyes were fireflies.

The silence crept into the classroom.

The bottle rolled off the table like a teardrop.

To persuade, inform, and entertain

To give human thoughts and qualities to nonhuman objects

information that is in the passage that is important

Types of literature.

words that appear in subtopics

to tell what will happen in the story

the turning point in the story

Peter Piper picked a pickled pepper

The trees dropped their leaves and rested.

The sunflowers nodded in the wind.

You are soft as the nesting dove.

the aim or central point of the story; a life lesson

The angry storm pounded the tin shelter.

to give details