STAAR Reading Review

1. context clues

• A. clues in text that help the reader determine the meaning of a word

• B. speaker or person telling the story

• C. when and where the story takes place

• D. the problem of the story

2. stage directions

• A. words that represents sounds

• B. when the story goes back in time

• C. a story written to be performed by actors; a play

• D. instructions for actors

3. fiction

• A. clues the indicate something will happen later on in the story or future

• B. literary work that is not real. It is usually made up

• C. the reason a story is written– to persuade, inform, entertain or explain

• D. the problem of the story

4. narrator

• A. a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• B. the reason a story is written– to persuade, inform, entertain or explain

• C. speaker or person who is telling the story

• D. the central idea or message of a story

5. climax

• A. the turning point of the story

• B. story told from the view point of one character using “I’ and “We”

• C. an exaggeration

• D. collecting clues to make an inference

6. main idea

• A. giving human qualities to non-human things

• B. a conversation between 2 people

• C. what a piece of writing is mainly about

• D. text that informs, gives instructions and is nonfiction

7. dialogue

• A. a conversation between 2 people

• B. story told from the view point of one character using “I’ and “We”

• C. instructions for actors

• D. giving human qualities to non-human things

8. metaphor

• A. a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as

• B. giving human qualities to non-human things

• C. an exaggeration

• D. words that represents sounds

9. plot

• A. the central idea or message of a story

• B. the turning point of the story

• C. the sequence of events in a story

• D. the problem of the story

10. setting

• A. when and where the story takes place

• B. story told from the view point of one character using “I’ and “We”

• C. when the story goes back in time

• D. the solution to a problem or final outcome of a story