STAAR Terms

To make known or understand

• convey
• express
• evidence 
• signal 

known to the reader

• logical
• reveal
• dialgogue 
• illustrate

a picture drawn or painted

• caption
• prop
• illustartion 
• signal 

stress the importance of something

• evidence
• appeal
• emphasize
• excerpt 

struggle between characters and events

• conflict
• solution
• dialogue
• reveal 

leading or convincing someone to believe a certain idea

• inform
• persuade
• entertain
• narative 

letters that slant to the right and is used to emphasise something

• bold
• underline
• italicize 

another word for infernce 

• examine 
• likely 
• question
• emphasize 

conversation between two or more persons 

• props
• dialgue
• visualize 
• parenthesis 

a passage or quote taken from a passage 

• excerpt
• letter
• entry
• script