STAAR Study Guide Review

What is the STEAL chart used for?

• Characterization

• Poetry

• Essay

• Author's Purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When the audience gets a hint about something that is going to happen

• allusion

• foreshadow

• imagery

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Words that appeal to the senses

• personification

• allusion

• foreshadow

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Giving a non-human object human-like qualities

• personification

• allusion

• foreshadow

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Something that represents something else

• symbolism

• foreshadow

• allusion

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The repetition of initial consonant sounds

• symbolism

• allusion

• alliteration

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Denotation is the -

• dictionary meaning of a word.

• deeper, or the associated meaning of a word

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Connotation is the -

• deeper, or the associated meaning of a word.

• dictionary meaning of a word.

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CCSS.L.9-10.5B

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is a synonym for the word "significance"?

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is the correct way to revise the following sentence?

We will be on vacation next week we will be unable to attend your party.

• We will be on vacation next week, so we will be unable to attend your party.

• We will be on vacation next week; although we we be unable to attend your party.

• We will be on vacation next week. We will be unable to attend your party.

• Your party is next week and we will be on vacation next week so we will be unable to go to the party.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A