7th Grade STAAR Prep Academic Vocabulary and Key Terms Quiz

Clues that explain what something is, sometimes by using an example.

• Restatement Clue

• Contrast Clue

• Definition Clue

• Cause-and-Effect Clue

Clues that give another word that means close to the same thing.

• Restatement Clue

• Contrast Clue

• Definition Clue

• Cause-and-Effect Clue

Clues that explain a relationship between why something happens and a result of it happening.

• Restatement Clue

• Contrast Clue

• Definition Clue

• Cause-and-Effect Clue

Clues that present a contradiction or opposite meaning.

• Restatement Clue

• Contrast Clue

• Definition Clue

• Cause-and -Effect Clues

The author's reasons for using particular details and descriptions and for organizing the text in a certain way.

• Author's Purpose

• Autobiography

• Claim

• Conclude

A writer's personal account of his or her life.

• Author's Purpose

• Autobiography

• Claim

• Conclude

In persuasive writing, a statement in which the author takes a position.

• Author's Purpose

• Autobiography

• Claim

• Conclude

Use clues and text evidence to understand something about the text.

• Author's Purpose

• Autobiography

• Claim

• Conclude

In fiction, some sort of struggle between characters or circumstances that must be overcome.

• Conflict

• Connotation

• Context Clues

• Denotation

The emotional meaning or association connected to the word.

• Conflict

• Connotation

• Context Clue

• Denotation