STAAR Practice Vocabulary

What is personification?

• A word that is a sound
• Giving human characteristics to non-human things

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

"When Adele walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her."
What is being personified?

• High Heels
• The store

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

Before choosing your "final answer" on any multiple choice test, how many answer choices should you look at?

• I can stop when I find one that could be right

• It depends on the question

• Only the longest answer - it's always right

• Always read all answer choices

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

To place importance or stress on something

• enhance
• evoke
• imply
• emphasize

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is an author's claim?

• a main idea

• a description

• a comparison

• a guess

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Which is an example of sensory language?

• Eradicate a passive voice to make a boring blog interesting.

• You don't want to deal with your to-do list, but you do it anyway.

• My feet were trudging in the thick, pasty mud. My feet felt heavy. Squelch. Sploosh. Squelch. Sploosh

• Research shows that when we can hold a product the desire for the product increases.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

By telling the story from the first-person point of view, the author helps the reader understand —

• how the protagonist's friend feels about a particular subject

• why a minor character enjoys the protagonist's company

• how all the characters feel about a particular subject

• how the protagonist feels about a particular subject

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What is the meaning of Suggest?

• To Ask

• to do something with power

• To tell in an indirect way

• to refuse

Tags

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

Which answer correctly uses the word Convey?

• The convey store was on the third block in my neighborhood.

• Please convey that work once a week.

• Mr. Williams conveyed his message to the audience last week.

• I will convey her to do what I want.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

The playwright__________

• is a character in a play

• speaks a play

• loves a play

• writes a play

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A