STAAR Review-English II

The writer's attitude about a subject.

• Tone

• Mood

• Conflict

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The feeling a reader gets from a passage.

• Mood

• Theme

• Flashback

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The events that make up a story.

• Flashback

• Plot

• Foreshadowing

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The problem in the story.

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Conflict

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Controlling idea or underlying idea in a story that is the overall message, what an author wants the reader to take away from the story (can be direct or indirectly stated)

• Conflict

• Plot

• Mood

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

An interruption in a story that takes a character back to a time that happened before the story's current setting, provides background, foreshadowing, or context clues.

• Plot

• Mood

• Suspense

• Flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Hinting at what will happen next in a story.

• Foreshadowing

• Suspense

• Exposition

• Hook

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Anticipation in story, used by authors to keep a reader's attention.

• Hook

• Flashback

• Suspense

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Introduction to the story where you find out about characters, settings, events.

• Resolution

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

1st sentence in an essay used to grab reader's attention; can be an anecdote, startling fact, or quote.

• Hook

• Compare

• Rising Action

• Suspense

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3