STAAR vocabulary 4

Letter or letters added to the beginning that changes the words meaning

Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme

Conflict inside characters head/mind

Instructions for actors and stage crew, written in italics

The person who is telling the story, the speaker

The author talks directly to the reader. Uses pronouns "you" and "your"

A type of literature (categories of books)

when two words rhyme in the same line of poetry

Letter or letters added to the end of a word that changes the words meaning

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

The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of any one character

The pattern of the rhyme in a poem (abab, aabb)

Told from the POV of one of the characters using the pronouns "I", "me", "we", and "us

Where and when the story takes place

An author's reason for why he picked his position in a topic

When part of the story goes back in time

A conversation between two characters

Told by on all-knowing narrator from outside the story who knows what every character thinks and feels

What happened and why it happened

Conflict takes place outside of the body/mind Man vs Man, Man vs nature, and Man vs society

Describing how things are different

The story of a person as told by another person told in 3rd person

A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or the causes of natural phenomena