Reading STAAR Vocabulary Practice

What is the definition of influence?

• to have an effect on someone or something

• to symbolize something

• to describe something

• to characterize something

What is the definition of characterize?

• Describe someone or something

• represent or stand for something else

• to eat pizza

• to have an effect on someone

What does the Statue of Liberty do?

• Symbolizes new beginnings

• Characterizes new beginnings

• Evaluates new beginnings

Select the definition of symbolize.

• To describe someone or something.

• To carefully judge someone or something

• To represent or stand for something

Briefly retelling the main ideas of a story in your own words is?

• Primary source

• Secondary source

• Relevant

• Summarizing

Information that is able to be trusted and accurate is?

• Relevant

• Glossary

• Reliable

• Source

Copying words and ideas from a source and presenting them as your own is?

• Quoting

• Summarizing

• Paraphrasing

• Plagiarism

A questions that asks for supporting details or something that supports an idea is asking for...

• an inference

• a selection

• evidence

• a definition

Nonfiction is...

• True

• Not true

The time and place of a story is what

• Resolution

• Setting

• Climax

• Rising Action