6th grade ELA STAAR Review

protagonist

• Main character in fiction or drama

• The parts of a text that stand out

• To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information provided

• Part of an act in a play

To inform

• An author's purpose that teaches you new information

• The part of the story that tells explains the setting and background of the story

• A short story that teaches a moral lesson

• Words that are opposite

Analogy

• A person belief or judgment that cannot be proven

• the attitude, or feeling that the author has about the subject

• A similarity of comparison between two different things or the relationship between them

• fiction that involves an event in history. Contains historical facts, events, or people, but is not true.

Text structure

• using clues from the story to make a reasonable guess about what will happen next

• a position on an issue or problem

• the part of a story which follows the climax or turning point

• the author's method of organizing text