Reading STAAR Practice II

To communicate or express information

where and when the story takes place

the repetition of consonant sounds at beginning of words "Sarah sat in the salty sea"

the perspective from which a story is told

told from the point of view of one character's using the pronouns "I" and "we"

Instructions for actors and stage crew, written in italics

a beginning or coming into being

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

told by an all-knowing narrator from outside story who reveals what everyone thinks and feels

a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or the causes of natural phenomenon

An expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the words

the use of words to imitate sounds

A division or type of literature

the use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot

Comparison using like or as

A conversation between two or more people

when a story goes back in time

Comparison without using like or as

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

the person who is telling the story, the speaker

the message, lesson, or central idea to a text

the reason the author has for writing (persuade, inform, entertain)

what the text is mainly about

in the time order in which events happened

Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhyme

the problem in the story

to make an educated guess using your schema and text evidence

giving human qualities to non-human things