STAAR Reading Vocabulary prep

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Persuade

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to convince someone to do or believe something.

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Free Verse Poem

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a type of poetry that does not have a regular rhyme or pattern.

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Prefix

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a word part that can be added at the beginning of a word.

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Sense of Touch

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the ability to feel things through skin, like pressure, temperature, and texture.

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Narrator

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the person who is telling the story.

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Rhyme

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the repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, often at the end of lines in poetry.

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile

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a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Theme

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the main idea or message in a story or poem.

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Character

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a person, animal, or figure in a story.