8th Grade Reading STAAR Review

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What is point of view?

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The "voice" of a work; the narrator's perspective.

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Which is an example of alliteration? Options: You snore louder than a freight train! , “He was wily as a fox.”, "Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August.", “The wind howled.”

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"Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August."

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Grouped lines in a poem is called a...

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stanza

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The feeling or atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work or passage is known as...

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mood

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"Your explanation is as clear as mud," is an example of a...

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simile

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A reflection of a writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject of a poem, story, or other literary work is known as...

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tone

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The character or force in conflict with a main character is also known as...

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antagonist

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conversation between two or more characters and identifiable by quotation marks

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dialogue

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How the author creates the passage and puts it together (examples: description, cause and effect, sequencing, etc.)

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text structures

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The angry clouds marched across the sky is an example of: pun, personification, idiom, cliche

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personification