STAAR Review - ENG I EOC

Reviewing words for clarity, coherence, smooth transitions, and unity.

A major division of a play.

Gives the read facts, examples, and specific details about a topic.

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable in a poem.

Letters added to the end of the word to change its meaning.

Is a set of letters attached to the beginning or the end of a root word.

Is a person in a narrative work of arts (such as a novel, play, television series or film).

These describe the setting and tell the actor what to do in a play.

A deliberate exaggeration.

A less abrasive form of a negative description instead of its original, unsympathetic form.

A speech delivered by one character while he or she is alone onstage.

Data in these features are usually organized in rows and columns.

Universal character types, situations, images, and symbols in a literary work.

A character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist.

A person, a place, or an object that represents something else or an abstract idea.

When you give human characteristics to non-human objects.

Used to downplay the significance of something, often for ironic effect.

His or her reason for writing a text.

Another character in a story who contrasts with the main character.

An alphabetical list that defines important words or terms used in a book or other text.

A reference text that lists synonyms and antonyms.

The sequence of actions that an author employs to present and resolve a conflict.

A literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event.

A subdivision of an act with a fixed setting or continuous time frame.

The idea that governs the entire text.

A literary device using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful.

The repeated sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words.

Using available technology or peers to edit your sentence structure, spelling, and grammar.

Words whose very sound is very close to the sound they are meant to depict.

Is a word's dictionary definition.

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or other work.

When the purpose of writing is to tell a story.

the main statement of a literary work that an author uses to convince readers.

A short literary composition on a single subject.

The central message in a literary text.

The stance a author adopts in shaping a specific emotional perspective towards the subject.

Literature that is written in verse, or short lines.

The step by step process wherein an author introduces and then describes a character.

A decision based on evidence in a passage.

Is the emotional weight a word carries.

Is any element, subject, idea or concept that is present through the entire body of literature.

A poem that has 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter.

The style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.

Using figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive and impactful.

Two sentences of contrasting meanings in close proximity to one another.

The writer's attitude toward the subject of the text.

A long speech delivered by one character, usually to another character.

A text to express ideas and feelings about real or imagined people, events, or ideas.

The use of prewriting strategies to generate and organize ideas.

A reference source of words listed alphabetically with their meanings, origins, & pronunciation

Is an important literary tool that acts as the afterword once the last chapter is over.

A literary work intended to be performed by actors for an audience.

A literary device that is used in narratives to omit some parts of a sentence or event.

Is a direct comparison of two unlike things, using the word like or as.

A comparison of two things that are largely dissimilar.

The term used to signal the rising and falling of the voice when reading a literary piece.

Is the use of descriptive language that use to the five senses to create a picture in your mind

A recurring object or concept within a play that enhances the theme.

An educated guess based on information and evidence combined with the reader's knowledge.

Wordplay in which letters of a word are rearranged so that a new word or phrase is formed.

Words that sound the same and sometimes have the same spelling.

A three-line poem with seventeen syllables total.

A character in the story that is actually a counterfeit or a copy of a genuine character.

Sets of lines in a poem.

a literary device that establish a relationship based on similarities between concepts or ideas

the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it to increase its worth.

a symbolism device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract, concept is conveyed.

The perspective from which a literary work is told.

Is a division of lines in a poem.

Poetry with no strict meter of rhyme.

Happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage.

A literary device where a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

A practice of forming a rhyme in only one lone line of verse.

A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true.

A type of text that addresses actual people, events, places, or other real-life subjects.

Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning.

An image, sound, action that have a symbolic significance and contributes toward the theme.

Repetition of sounds at the ends of lines.

When writers employ two or more characters to be engaged in conversation.

Poetry with a fixed structure.

A literary genre that makes the use of highly funny situations to entertain the audience.

A literary device that is used as a descriptive device.

A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.

The making of a casual or indirect reference to something.

The main part of the word.

A character in who has a complex personality. Like real people, they have depth.

These portray a geographic region.

A short verbal accounting of a funny, amusing, interesting event or incident.

Occurs when the reader or audience knows something that a character does not.

Words that have the opposite meaning.

a literary device where the author uses phrases that exaggerate the basic statement.

Attempts to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way.

These are commonly found in instruction manuals to visually demonstrate how to perform a task.

Letters added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning.