STAAR Terms

an object, person, or place that stands for something else

a collection of a speaker's memories with the same theme

a claim or proof that an idea is false

a poem that tells a story

narrator is someone outside the story ("he," "they"), audience knows most characters' thoughts

the narrator is someone outside of the story, audience only sees one character's side

anything that can't be taken literally 

the teller is a character in the story, uses "I," "we," "our," 

the outcome is opposite of what is intended

the overall emotional quality of a work 

the central idea, message, or purpose of a literary work

plot revolves around

a kind of comparison that gives objects or abstract ideas human characteristics

events after the climax of a story but before the resolution

one specific episode in the narrator’s life, has a plot 

a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing IS another

clues or hints signaling events that will occur later in the plot

sudden memory of an event in the past, interruption of plot to tell events that happened before

exaggeration

author's purpose

the turning point in the story

a comparison of two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as"

setting is

a paragraph for poems (a chunked set of lines in a poem)

a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject

the outcome of the conflict of a story, when loose ends are wrapped up