STAAR Reading Vocabulary Review

Clues in a text that help the reader determine the meaning of a word

• Context Clues

• Setting

• Foreshadow

• Resolution

• Summary

When and where the story takes place

• stanza

• Setting

• Prefix

• Main Idea

Clues that indicate something will happen later on in the story or future

• point of view

• Foreshadow

• flashback

• personification

The solution to a problem or final outcome of a story

• Resolution

• metaphor

• climax

• suffix

A brief statement about the main events of a story

• author's purpose

• narrator

• theme

• summary

Instructions for actors

• stage directions

• text features

• playwright

• dialogue

An exaggeration

• simile

• hyperbole

• theme

• expository

the perspective from which the story is told

• plot

• prefix

• point of view

• stanza

a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

• simile

• metaphor

• drama

• onomatopoeia

When the story goes back in time

• flashback

• context clues

• foreshadow

• dialogue