STAAR review

A genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.

• literary non fiction

• fiction

• poetry

• drama

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Literature that uses highly concise, musical and emotionally charged language, imagery, figurative language, and sound devices.

• fiction

• drama

• poetry

• non fiction

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

The woman sang like a bird.

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence?

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Cameron always had a taste for the fruit of knowledge. 

What is the figurative language used and it's implied meaning?

• hyperbole. One can not taste knowledge

• simile. It means that he likes the taste of fruit.

• metaphor. It means that he really enjoyed learning.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A word that is similar in meaning to author’s attitude; it’s how the author feels or writes about his subject, character(s) or event(s)

• mood

• tone

• simile

• emotions

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

A message the author is trying to convey is –

• Sometimes taking a less crowded route can get you home quicker.

• Take a more interesting, if less popular path in life.

• Always follow the crowd.

• Be careful traveling alone through the woods.

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The feathers danced in the wind.

What type of figurative language is being used in this sentence?

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

She marched quickly through the foyer and made it to the stairwell. Distracted by a group of tardy students who had congregated at the top to take selfies, Lucy tripped over her first step. She stumbled, fell, and then skidded all the way to the bottom, purse, and bag sliding down behind her.

Which words from the paragraph help with the understanding of congregated?

• marched quickly through the foyer

• a group of tardy students

• all the way to the bottom

• at the top to take selfies

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Rodney continued. "Hey, I hope you don't think I'm making fun of you! Actually, I think you're going to save our 30-second film project! Your name has perfect potential for a star character - Lucy Falls!" He gestured as if her name were shining in lights. "The fact that you also fell, quite gracefully I might add, makes it the perfect play on words! You're going to be the inspiration for our project!"

In paragraph 20, what does the word potential mean?

• an existing possibility

• an unexpected outcome

• a specific plan

• a strange situation

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Escape by Margarita Engle

Living in between two ways

of speaking

and hearing

makes me feel as divided

(5) as the gaps between

languages.

At least we’re finally

on our way to the farm,

where there will be more animals

(10) than people, and I won’t have to struggle

to understand

old folks.

As we bump along a muddy track

in Tío1 Darío’s battered jeep, I inhale

(15) the scent of roadside flowers

that grow tall and weedy,

rooted in mud the color of blood.

Red soil.

(20) Green hills.

White cows.

Horses of so many shades

that the colors can’t be

counted.

(25) Everything looks just as wild and free

as I’ve half-remembered

and half-imagined.

The simile in stanza 1 helps show that the speaker...

• wants to learn different languages in order to communicate with others

• feels annoyed by having to spend so much time listening to others

• wants to go home again and not have to speak or listen to anyone

• feels torn between two different worlds that have little in common

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10