8th Grade STAAR Reading

Exposition

• A quote set apart from a body of text at the beginning of a chapter or speech
• The beginning of a story; introduces characters, the setting, and problem
• A detailed, complex metaphor that continues through a long section of text.
• A statement that can be verified with facts, observation, reliable sources or experts findings.

Tags

CCSS.W.8.3A

retells the main ideas of a text from the beginning, middle, end

• Lyric Poem
• Aphorism
• Summary
• Paraphrase

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

to translate or restate in your own words

• Lyric Poem
• Aphorism
• Alliteration
• Paraphrase

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

 a verse repeated throughout a poem

• Lyric Poem
• Refrain
• Alliteration
• Paraphrase

repetition of the beginning consonant sound of two or more words

• Lyric Poem
• Refrain
• Alliteration
• Paraphrase

repetition of the beginning consonant sound of two or more words

• Lyric Poem
• Refrain
• Alliteration
• Paraphrase

The moral or lesson of the story 

• Lyric Poem
• Refrain
• setting
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

The problem that needs to be resolved in the story 

• conflict
• Refrain
• setting
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

Words that represent sounds this is called 

• Irony
• onomatopeia
• elegy
• haiku

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

When animals or things in nature have human qualities this is 

• metaphor
• personification.
• simile 

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RL.8.4