4th Grade STAAR Reading Vocabulary

Question 1

told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and We"

Accepted Answer

first person

Question 2

to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented

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conclude

Question 3

the person who is telling the story; the speaker

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narrator

Question 4

the repetition of consonant SOUNDS at the beginning of words.

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alliteration

Question 5

a division or type of literature

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genre

Question 6

the parts of a text that stand out (diagram, table of contents, index, etc)

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text features

Question 7

poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme

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free verse

Question 8

elaborate exaggeration. Example: I could eat a 100 hot dogs!

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hyperbole

Question 9

the events that make up a story

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plot

Question 10

where and when the story takes place

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setting

Question 11

to combine text evidence with schema

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infer

Question 12

giving human qualities to non-human things. Example: The sun smiled down on me.

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personification

Question 13

the use of words that represent sounds. Example: Boom!

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onomatopoeia

Question 14

A practical lesson about right and wrong

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moral

Question 15

fiction that involves an event in history, historical facts, events, or people but is not true.

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historical fiction

Question 16

the reason why something happens

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cause

Question 17

comparison using like or as. Example: The car was as cold as ice.

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simile

Question 18

Example: He is a bear in the morning.

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metaphor

Question 19

word that appeal to a reader's senses (sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, emotion)

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sensory language

Question 20

small text found near a picture that provides important information about the picture

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caption

Question 21

what a piece of writing is mainly about

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main idea

Question 22

the problem in the story

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conflict

Question 23

The reason the author has for writing. (Inform, persuade, express, & entertain)

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author's purpose

Question 24

Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word

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context clues

Question 25

the story of a person's life written by that person in first person point of view

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autobiography

Question 26

the turning point in the action of a story

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climax

Question 27

the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life

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theme

Question 28

a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.

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fiction

Question 29

Example: It's raining cats and dogs.

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idiom

Question 30

Writing that is factual, not creative or fictional.

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nonfiction

4th Grade STAAR Reading Vocabulary

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4th Grade STAAR Reading Vocabulary

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