STAAR Review

Inferencing means to:

• make a prediction

• write a summary

• take a guess

• choose what's most important

What do you need in order to make an inference? (select 2)

• author's name

• the text

• the picture

• your brain

Main idea stands for:

(a)  

• most important
• main inference
• major idiom
• more information

What belongs in a summary?

(a)  

• author's purpose
• synonyms and antonyms
• main ideas
• lesson learned

True or false? Lesson, moral, and message are synonyms of theme.

• true

• false

Playwrights use ___________________ in the script to show a change in the setting of a drama.

• stage directions

• props

• scene changes

• backdrops

True or false?

The rising action of a story is when the conflict reaches it's peak.

• True

• False

True or False?

A synonym for the word "support" is the word "prove".

• True

• False

to make something known to the reader

• emphasize

• convey

• support

• convince

The _________________ is the person, animal, creature, or thing telling a story.

• antagonist

• protagonist

• point of view

• narrator