STAAR Vocabulary

The protagonist in a story experiences a change during the --

• rising action

• falling action

• climax/turning point

• resolution

What is a hyperbole?

• to show and tell

• giving human-qualities to non-human things

• comparing two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

• an exaggeration to show strong feeling and effect

An organizational pattern is . . .

• the main events of a story in sequential order

• the way a text is organized

• main idea

• an pattern with great organization skills

What is main idea?

• text structure

• beginning, middle, and end

• what a text is mostly or mainly about

• an organizational pattern

Another word for theme is --

• main idea

• view point

• message

• inference

What does infer mean?

• to show or tell

• to make a random guess

• to convey

• to make a conclusion by using prior knowledge and evidence

The speaker of a poem is . . .

• author

• narrator

• writer

• reader

What is personification?

• giving human-like qualities to non-human things

• the repetition of phrases, line, or group of lines

• exaggeration to show strong feeling or effect

• comparing two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"

Which of the following is an example of a text feature?

• caption

• Venn Diagram

• compare and contrast

• timeline

What is a refrain?

• phrase, line, or group of lines repeated throughout a poem

• a line that is stopped from speaking

• giving human-like qualities to non-human things

• expressed in an alternative way