8th Grade Rock STAAR Vocabulary

The struggle or problem in the story that a character MUST resolve

• persuasion

• point of view

• conflict

• main idea

Where and when the story takes place

• resolution

• setting

• chronological order

• summary

the central idea or message of a work, the insight or "life lesson" it gives the reader

• theme

• autobiography

• literal language

• myth

A brief statement of the main events in a story

• biography

• narrator

• summary

• rising action

The time order in which events happen

• chronological order

• falling action

• 3rd person

• point of view

used to convince or persuade the reader to agree with the writer's point of view

• words

• persuasion

• point of view

• rhyme scheme

A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or the causes of natural phenomena

• autobiography

• exposition

• climax

• myth

The story of a person's life, written by that person in 1st person point of view

• metaphor

• foreshadow

• autobiography

• main idea

the perspective from which a story is told

• flashback

• alliteration

• dialogue

• point of view

told from the viewpoint of the narrator within the story, using pronouns "I" and "We"

• 3rd person point of view

• 1st person point of view

• autobiography

• dialogue