STAAR Reading Test Vocabulary

analogy

• compare using like or as

• compare and contrast

• compare using relationships

• personal view

personal view (adjectives and emotions)

• evidence

• opinion

• fact

• point of view

disprove (prove wrong)

• premise

• refute

• conflict

• approve

struggle or problem between characters or a character and the situation

• conflict

• summary

• mood

• tension

creates uncertainty (horror and suspense)

• mood

• foreshadow

• conflict

• tension

represent something else (tree=you)

• symbolize

• analogy

• main idea

• premise

evidence

• author's opinion

• facts to support the author's claim

• crime scene

• the central topic

theme

• the me

• central topic (power of friendship)

• why the author wrote it

• PIE

mood

• how the reader feels

• how the characters feel

• how the author feels

• how Mrs. Wright feels

summary

• main idea

• PIE

• BME problem and solution

• central message