8th STAAR Reading 2018

What is the climax of a story?

• The end of the story.

• The beginning of the story.

• The turning point of the story.

• The funniest part of the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the setting of the story?

• The people in the story.

• Where and when the story takes place.

• The problem of the story.

• The genre of the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which genre has stanzas and lines?

• Realistic fiction

• Informational non-fiction

• Poetry

• Biography

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is the "author's message"?

• The story the author tells.

• The lesson the author wants the reader to learn.

• The general feeling of the passage.

• The style or type of passage the author writes.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

In poetry , _____________ are like paragraphs in fiction and non-fiction writing.

• Lines

• Pages

• Stanzas

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which of the following is a simile?

• He was a tiger leaping on his prey.

• They were louder than a rock concert.

• She was like a ninja, fighting the criminals.

• My computer haves me!

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A hyperbole:

• Is a saying that is not to be taken literally.

• Is comparing two unlike things.

• Is an extreme exaggeration.

• Is a sound word.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does the idiom "It's raining cats and dogs" mean?

• There are too many cats and dogs in the area.

• It is raining heavily

• It is raining animals.

• It is not raining.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Pictures, diagrams, and graphs:

• help the reader understand the problem in a story.

• Help the reader understand more about non-fiction text.

• Distract the reader from reading.

• Entertain readers.

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

The tone of a passage is:

• the general feeling created by the writer.

• the length of the selection.

• the type of selection.

• the lesson given in the selection.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4