STAAR Reading Vocabulary Review

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Foreshadow

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Clues that indicate something will happen later on in the story or future.

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Suffix

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A word part that can be added to the end of a word to make a new word.

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Autobiography

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The story of a person's life written by that person.

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Dialogue

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A conversation between 2 people.

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Stanza

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The 'paragraph' in a poem.

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Point of View

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The perspective from which a story is told.

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Flashback

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A scene that interrupts the present action to show an event that happened earlier.

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Personification

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Giving human traits to non-human things.

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Plot

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The sequence of events in a story.

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Setting

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The time and place in which a story occurs.