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#fifthgradestaar #staarvocabulary #reviewstaarterms 5th grade
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The message in a text that helps you understand more about life or human behavior is called ---
Summary
Theme
Main Idea
Purpose
2
This pattern puts events in their correct order based upon the TIME in which they happened.
Cause and effect
Chronological order
Compare and contrast
Description
3
The reason the author writes a certain type of text is known as---
Point of view
The main message
Summary
Author's purpose
4
This type of writing describe people & places that are 'real' and events that really happened.
Poetry
Personal narrative
Non-fiction
Fiction
5
Name the genre:
a story with elements that are impossible; talking animals or magical powers
Fantasy
Legend
Mystery
Folktale
6
Combining inferences you have made about the characters, setting, or plot to make a statement.
Predictions
Theory
Summary
Theme
7
What are the parts of a text (table of contents, index, etc) called?
Text features
Non-ficiton
Words, commas, periods and dialouge
Extra information
8
Define:
Dialogue
a character inner monologue
a third person speaking to the reader
the story the narrator is telling
a conversation between two characters in a story
9
Small text found near a picture that provides important information about that picture is---
a summary
subtitles
additional information
a caption
10
What a piece of writing or paragraph is mainly about is called the ______________.
Summary
Purpose
Story
Main Idea
11
Complete the sentence:
_______ is the ending or final outcome of a story.
Happily Ever After....
Resolution
The End
Verdict
12
This organizational pattern shows all the ways that 2 or more things are similar and different.
Cause and effect
Sequential order
Problem and solution
Compare and contrast
13
To say that something is bigger or greater than it really is; "to stretch the truth" is called-
Alliteration
Storytelling
Lying
Exaggeration
14
A story that is imagined and has characters and events that could not exist in the real world.
Legends
Non-fiction
Myths
Fairytale
15
Words and phrases that create _____ by using the 5 senses.
Figurative language
Poetry
Imagery
Fiction
16
Fiction that involves an event in history. This genre is called-
Myth
Science fiction
Historical fiction
Realistic fiction
17
Clues in the text that help the reader determine the meaning of unknown words is known as-
Close reading
Prediction
Context clues
An inference
18
Which term compares two things by using the words "like" or "as"?
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Simile
19
A type of writing based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
Non-fition
Fiction
Poetry
Drama
20
What is the events that make up a fictional story called?
Climax
Characters
Setting
Plot
21
Complete the sentence:
______ is also known as the problem and solution in the story.
plot
Resolution
disagreement
Issue
22
The way that an article is organized is called-
Text structure
Climax
Beginning, middle and end
Pattern
23
When a reader uses clues from the text + what they already know to draw a conclusion is called-
Prediction
Summary
Inference
Conclusion
24
The word
companion
means.....
A pet
An enemy
A parent
A friend
25
Define:
Emphasize
to predict
to support
to bring attention to or show
to close read
26
When an author uses clues to help you figure out what events will happen later in the story is-
Psychic Flash
Prediction
Foreshadowing
Flashback
27
Sentences that give you facts, descriptions & examples to help you understand the main idea is-
Subtitles
Supporting facts
Main Purpose
Supporting details
28
Name the genre:
a story that may happen in real life with fictional characters or settings
Traditional literature
Realistic fiction
Fiction
Historical fiction
29
Complete the sentence:
______ is when & where the story takes place.
Resolution
Problem
Characters
Setting
30
A type of writing used to persuade the reader of the author's point-of-view is called -
Informational
Explanatory
Persuasive
Declarative
31
The perspective from which a story is told is called ----
1st person
Stalking
3rd person
Point of View
32
Define:
Summary
a long paragraph that describes the main idea of the story.
a short paragraph that describes the climax of the story.
a paragraph that tells the supporting details of the story
a short paragraph that tells the main events from the story.
33
Define:
Genre
a mode of reading
a type of literature
a type of book
a summary of passages