STAAR VOCAB List #3

a quality a person possesses such as honesty

• idiom

• simile

• character trait

a phrase that means something different than what the individual words say

• simile

• idiom

• character trait

when two unlike things are being compared using the words like or as

• simile

• idiom

• story map

a diagram used to show key elements of a story like the characters, confict, plot and solution

• hyperbole

• personification

• story map

when something nonliving takes on human or living qualities

• story map

• personification

• hyperbole

when the exact opposite of what you would expect happens

• metaphor

• irony

• hyperbole

a pattern in which ideas are presented in the order they occur, sequence; like A,B,C, or 1,2,3

• figurative language

• chronological order

• character trait

when something is being described by comparing it to something else using lots of similes, metaphor, and imagery

• chronological order

• character trait

• figurative language

when two unlike things are being compared without using like or as

• irony

• metaphor

• hyperbole

_____________ __________ can be helpful in comparing and describing things, providing visual images, by using examples of similes, metaphors, and lots of imagery.

• character traits

• story map

• figurative language