STAAR Reading Prep Part 2

All story plots follow a natural order, which is known as the elements of plot. Which answer has the elements labeled in the correct order?

• Title, introductory paragraph, body
  paragraph, and conclusion paragraph
• Resolution, climax, rising action, conflict,
  falling action, exposition
• C. Exposition, conflict, rising action, climax,
  falling action, resolution
• fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Sensory language allows the reader to use their senses and paints a picture in the reader’s mind. This type of figurative language is called?

• imagery
• literary
• imagination 
• irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What luck, I finally have a day off from work and the weather is perfect. It is sunny and cool with a mild breeze blowing. I have been waiting for a day like this for a long time.
Make an inference for the above situation.

• It's a great time to get some house work done
• There is a good chance it is going to rain
• School will probably be cancelled
• This will be great day to do something outside.

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

What is the text structure? 
An article explaining the cure for a minor burn.

• Cause/Effect 
• Comparison/Contrast
• Order/Sequence
• Problem-Solution

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

to arrive at a conclusion, Imply

• Infer 
• Summarize
• Claim
• Selection

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The resolution to the conflict. 

• Consultation 
• Resolution
• Pace 
• Falling action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The tone is a ________ or speaker's attitude toward a subject.

• reader's
• audience
• writer's

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

_______ is a struggle between opposing forces. 

• Cause
• Effect
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The setting is the _______ and ________ in which a narrative occurs. 

• mood, attitude
• structure, plot
• time, place

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Imagery is descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures. 

• true
• false

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3