6th STAAR reading review

What does context mean?

• to create a picture in one's mind using written or spoken words
• the setting of a word or phrase that affects its meaning
• that which tends to prove or disprove something
• to indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated

What is main idea?

• The author's purpose
• The moral lesson of the story
• What the story is mostly about
• The supporting details in a story

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

Which strategy should you use while reading a passage?

• Write the main idea for each paragraph
• Underline every sentence
• Circle each paragraph
• label the title

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

What is a conflict in a story?

• a struggle between two opposing forces usually the protagonist and the antagonist
  
• A series of events that complicates matters for your characters, and results in increased drama or suspense
• story is in chronological order and does not skew from that order.
  
• The beginning that introduces the characters and setting. 

I ...........................down the street, when suddently I ............... into an old friend of mine.

• was running/ bumped
• was running/was bumping
• were running/were bumping
• ran/was bumping

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse. 

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

On a plot diagram, what is the turning point called?

• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action

When something (not a human) is given human characteristics it is called...

• hyperbole
• simile
• metaphor
• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Conversation between two characters is called...

• A monologue
• A discussion
• A dialogue
• A quotation

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Name one way to learn about a character’s personality?

• Through dialogue of a character in another text.
• Reading backwards.
• The character's actions.
• none of the above