STAAR Fiction Vocabulary Review

Summary

• opinion

• Beginning, Middle, End

• main idea

• an account of the events of a text

• notes

Fiction

• has characters and setting

• gives facts

• has a plot

• gives information

• not real

To demonstrate plainly or clearly; to make known.

• reveal

• plot

• fiction

• expresses

to make known or to share information

• convey

• fiction

• significant

• expresses

the basic sequence of events in a story

• conveys

• fiction

• conflict

• plot

to play a significant part in bringing about a result

• conflict

• expresses

• contribute

• summary

a literary device that uses sensory details or language to create mental images and sensory impressions

• contribute

• imagery

• reveal

• figurative language

language not intended to be interpreted literally but layered with meaning through the use of literacy devices

• plot

• summary

• figurative language

• conflict

Something great or important to be worthy of attention.

• significant

• express

• conflict

• tell

The problem in the story.

• exposition

• conflict

• climax

• solution