STAAR Review 8th grade Reading

facts, reasons, data, or opinions to support a claim

What questions should you ask your self reading literary nonfiction?

starts with the most important point and ends with the least or vice versa

when and where the story takes place

shows what happens and why it happens

A character or force in conflict with the main character

the overall feeling of a story

story of a person's life written by another person

believing the worst of human nature and motives

the practice of using a person, thing, or object to represent something else

What are our foundational annotation skills?

a logical guess based on evidence or reasoning

What is the three-step process you must remeber when completing an essay on the STAAR Test?

occurs when another character or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage 

numbers, tables, and graphs are used to support a claim

a reference to a well-known person, place, or event

A thing that represents or stands for something else.

an account of the author's personal experiences

the perspective from which the story is told

a struggle between two opposing forces

The events that make up a story or the main part of the story. 

in a narrative, the person telling the story

the repetition of similar sounds

when an author mentions or hints at something that will happen later in the story

Provides the main points of what you read (the gist of the text).

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

An argument that opposes your claim. Also known as an antithesis. 

Three periods used to indicate a pause in speech, or an unfinished thought.

when an author refers back to something that already took place in the story

The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story

what the author believes or wants to prove to his or her audience

the universal message of a story

A reference to a well-known person, place, or event.

in a narrative, the person telling the story

an extreme exaggeration

The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.

the main character in a literary work

a conversation between two persons

an argument that makes sense, appeals to what you know is right or smart

giving human traits to non-living things

ridicule by saying the opposite of what the speaker means

the main idea of an essay to be proved/explained (subject + two opinions)

presents information in sequence or in the order in which it happens

Point of view where the reader only sees only characters' thoughts, emotions, and actions...

a long speech in which one character speaks at length to another character

an opinion made by an expert on the topic

Omniscient point of view is when the reader. . .

a comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

A statement that is believed without proof.

who the author is trying to persuade

marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws

a character narrates the story with I-me-my-mine in his or her speech

an argument that appeals to the reader's emotions

a logical guess based on evidence or reasoning

a sentence that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"

a reasoned defense of a position or claim

To be able to support a claim or opinion with evidence

What book(s) should you use if you do know what a word means?

For vocabulary questions, you should do all of the following except. . .

Declaration or claim that something is true without providing any proof or facts to back it up.

The main idea of an essay to be proved/explained. 

language that uses words with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation

shows similarities and differences between two or more things

story of a person's life written by that person