STAAR Vocabulary Practice

A poem that tells a story is called ______ .

• Narrative

• Lyrical

• Free Verse

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

Poems without rhyme or rhythm and usually not written in 

stanzas are called _____ .

• Narrative

• Free Verse

• Lyrical

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

A word, sound, or pattern that occurs over and over is called _____ .

• Repetition

• Rhythm

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

 A division of a poem where lines are arranged together and 

usually repeat patterns, sounds, rhythm, or rhyme is called ____ .

• Narrative

• Lyrical

• Free Verse

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4

In the story, when the author emphasizes the importance of something -

What does the word emphasize mean?

• Make important or stand out

• To suggest

• To compare

• A statement that cannot be proven

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

What does plot mean?

• Main problem in the story

• Lesson learned in the story

• Events that make up a story

• The most intense part of the story, or the turning point in the story.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What is chronological order?

• Comparing and Contrasting

• Describing

• The order in which events occur, from first to last

• The steps in a process or event

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.W.4.2D

The story's third person point of view helps the reader -

What is third person point of view?

• Told from the point of view of one of the characters in the story - uses pronouns like I, me, my, we, us

• When the reader is part of the story - uses pronouns like you and your

• The narrator exists outside the story - uses pronouns like he, she, they, them

• It's not important.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The author organizes paragraph 9 in a compare and contrast pattern to illustrate -

What does illustrate mean?

• Paint

• To hide

• Instructions

• To show or explain

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.4.2D

What is Author's Purpose?

• a true and factual story of someone's life written by someone else

• the reason something happens such as an event or actions

• the reason an author wrote a passage

• telling how things are alike or similar

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6