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ENGLISH STAAR VOCABULARY

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English
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10th Grade
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Pamela Ramos
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1.
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The author’s attitude towards the topic, such as critical, objective, optimistic, angry, or nostalgic.
2.
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Inference or infer
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An educated guess made by connecting what you read with what you already know.
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Paraphrase
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To express the author’s ideas in a different way.
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Summarize
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To describe the most important parts from a larger piece of text.
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Character Foil
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A character who serves as a contrast to the main character to highlight their qualities or traits.
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Oxymoron
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A figure of speech in which seemingly opposite words are used together to create new meaning (e.g., jumbo shrimp).
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Sarcasm
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The use of irony in order to mock or insult.
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