ELA Staar Review

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protagonist

• Main character in fiction or drama

• The parts of a text that stand out

• To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information provided

• Part of an act in a play

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To inform

• An author's purpose that teaches you new information

• The part of the story that tells explains the setting and background of the story

• A short story that teaches a moral lesson

• Words that are opposite

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Analogy

• A person belief or judgment that cannot be proven

• the attitude, or feeling that the author has about the subject

• A similarity of comparison between two different things or the relationship between them

• fiction that involves an event in history. Contains historical facts, events, or people, but is not true.

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Text structure

• using clues from the story to make a reasonable guess about what will happen next

• a position on an issue or problem

• the part of a story which follows the climax or turning point

• the author's method of organizing text

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A character who opposes the the main character of a story and is usually considered "the bad guy."

• protagonist

• antagonist

• villianologist

• evilist

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The story's central turning point—the moment of peak tension or conflict— in a plot.

• resolution

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

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The exchange of spoken words between two or more characters

• conflict

• dialogue

• dialect

• monologue

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Language that cannot be taken literally

• Speeches

• Monologues

• Dialect

• Figurative Language

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When Authors give hints about what might happen later in the story

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• falling action

• irony

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When two things are compared by saying that one thing is the other thing

• simile

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

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Which is an example of an onomatopoeia?

• buzz

• paint

• fluffly

• harangue

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When human characteristics are given to non-humans.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• irony

• personification

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When and where a story takes place.

• characterization

• plot overview

• setting

• point of view

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Which is an example of a metaphor?

• That man is a pig!

• Life is like a box of chocolates.

• She is on cloud nine today!

• The leaves danced in the wind.

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Which is an example of a simile?

• That man is a pig!

• Life is like a box of chocolates.

• She is on cloud nine today!

• The leaves danced in the wind.

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Which is an example of personification?

• That man is a pig!

• Life is like a box of chocolates.

• She is on cloud nine today!

• The leaves danced in the wind.

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What is theme?

• What a story is about

• The lesson of the story

• How the characters behave

• Why things happen in a story

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What is central idea?

• What a story is about

• The lesson of the story

• How the characters behave

• Why things happen in a story

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Which sentence is written in 1st Person point of view?

• The man laughed as he walked away.

• Sylvia thought it was funny to see a woman wearing a fur coat in June.

• Next, mix the flour and eggs in a large bowl.

• We ran to the store to buy snacks for our party.

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Which sentence is written in 2nd Person point of view?

• The man laughed as he walked away.

• Sylvia thought it was funny to see a woman wearing a fur coat in June.

• Next, mix the flour and eggs in a large bowl.

• We ran to the store to buy snacks for our party.

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Which sentence is written in 3rd Person Limited point of view?

• The man laughed as he walked away.

• Sylvia thought it was funny to see a woman wearing a fur coat in June.

• Next, mix the flour and eggs in a large bowl.

• We ran to the store to buy snacks for our party.

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Which sentence is written in 3rd Person Omniscient point of view?

• The man laughed as he walked away.

• Sylvia thought it was funny to see a woman wearing a fur coat in June.

• Next, mix the flour and eggs in a large bowl.

• We ran to the store to buy snacks for our party.

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Which is NOT considered one of the 3 purposes an author has for writing?

• Inform

• Entertain

• Persuade

• Finances

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The reason something happens and the result of it happening.

• Cause and Effect

• Author's Purpose

• Main Idea

• Plot Diagram

6th Grade Q2 ELA Review