English I STAAR Review 1 (English I)

The persons for whom an author writes a text:

A comparison of similar qualities between two things that are not similar:

The ending of a story, when the conflict is resolved:

The problems that the characters in a story must solve:

The emotional associations carried or implied by a word:

Added to the beginning of a root word to change its meaning:

The central message or lesson of a literary work:

A shorter division of an act in drama:

An essay that explains and analyzes a topic:

A list of sources cited in a research paper:

A word that describes or modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb:

The words spoken by the characters in a drama or story:

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun:

The narrator is not a character in the story:

The perspective from which a story is told:

The main idea of an essay or a research paper:

Literature written in verse or in short lines:

The sequence of events in fiction or drama:

A narrator that is in the story and tells the story from his point of view:

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

An extreme exaggeration:

A guess based on information and evidence in a text and the reader's prior knowledge

Giving an animal or object human-like qualities:

A major division of a play:

Which word has a negative connotation?

The main part of a word:

A speech delivered by one character while alone on stage:

A word that takes the place of a noun:

The turning point in a plot when a character deals directly with a conflict:

A person or animal in a story, play, or poem:

Which word is NOT likely borrowed from a foreign language?

A word's dictionary definition:

When the reader or audience knows something that a character does not:

Which word has a positive connotation?

The bulk of a story, during which the character works to resolve the problem:

When an author provides clues or hints about the future in a story:

A comparison of two unalike things, using the words like or as:

Words that have the opposite meaning:

A set of letters added to the beginning or end of a word:

In drama, a long speech delivered by one character to another:

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in a literary work:

A word that shows action or a state of being:

The form of a verb in which the subject does the action in a sentence:

A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea:

The location and time in which a story takes place:

The author's or narrator's attitude toward a subject:

A comparison of two unlike things:

A set of lines in a poem:

A character who serves as a contrast to another character:

Added to the end of a root word to change its meaning: