ELA 8th STAAR Review

Events leading up to the climax

The pattern of rhyming words or sounds-uses letters to label lines that rhyme

Supporting a statement with information from text

When the narrator is a character in the story and uses words like I, me, we

I'm ready for the STAAR test.

The main character, who must overcome obstacles and resolve the conflict

A term for extreme exaggeration (shot heard around the world)

I need to complete the test in order.

A way of thinking about situations or topics

To make an inference...

To make an inference...

When the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character

Every question on the test has...

The time and place of the action

A central idea of a work (the lesson)

A shorter version of a story that gives only the main parts

These hints help the reader identify an expository text.

Words related to the five senses create an image in the readers mind.

This type of text informs or instructs the reader. It is nonfiction.

The narrator tells the story using the pronouns "I", "We" and "Our" to address a reader.

The narrator describes only the facts of the story and no character thoughts or feelings.

On a reading test, a selection is

The character who works against the protagonist in the story

A word that imitates the sound they are naming (buzz)

An affix that is added in front of the word

Use this strategy to summarize a narrative

Every question on the test has...

These are features of a poem

A category of artistic works, as in music or literature.

A plot composed of an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

Which of these is included in the resolution?

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

Giving human qualities to non-human things (the little dog laughed)

A poem that tells a story

Which of these does not belong on a plot diagram

To make an inference...

Which of these is author's purpose?

What is the perspective from which a story is told?

what a piece of writing is mostly about