STAAR Vocabulary

What is an excerpt?

• Part of a text
• Question
• Answer

What is author's purpose?

• The author's reason for writing
• Facts presented by author
• An author's opinion

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

What is plot?

• Story, sequence of events

• Characters

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is theme?

• moral, lesson, message
• fact
• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.5

What is personification?

• exaggeration
• compares 2 things
• gives human qualities to objects

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is mood?

• compares 2 things
• the feeling the author conveys
• an exaggeration

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is a dialogue?

• characters talking

• person who wrote the play
• tells actors how to feel

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

What is a playwright?

• person who writes a play

• tells actors how to feel
• characters talking

What does convey mean?

• to show
• to learn
• to listen

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4D

What does reveal mean?

• importance
• the reason
• to show

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4