Reading-STAAR Review

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What is a metaphor?

Back

A comparison when one thing becomes another.

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What is considered the turning point of the story?

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Climax.

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Identify the figurative language: 'Fame is a bee. / It has a song -- / It has a sting.'

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Metaphor.

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Identify the type of figurative language: 'There’s a faucet in the basement / that had dripped one drop all year since he fixed it, we can’t find it / without wearing scuba gear.'

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Hyperbole.

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Identify the figurative language: 'The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves.'

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Simile.

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What is a simile?

Back

A comparison using 'like' or 'as.'

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What is hyperbole?

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An extreme exaggeration.

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What is personification?

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When human qualities are given to something that is not human.

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What is the rising action in a story?

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The series of events that lead up to the climax.

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What is falling action in a story?

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The events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution.