STAAR Prep Vocab Review

A word that has a similar meaning to another word is a-

• prefix

• synonym

• antonym

• summary

What does the term central idea/main idea mean?

• The title of the text

• The conclusion of the text

• What the text is mostly about

• The first sentence of the text

Where would you find a caption?

• In the title of a section

• Under or next to a photograph

• On your stop and jot

• The words at the top of a selection

What does "imagery" mean?

• What the author wants you to learn

• What you can visualize in your mind

• The background setting of a story

• The moral or lesson of a story

What is a "Stanza" in a poem?

• Words that repeat

• Numbers next to the words

• A group of lines that look like a paragraph

• A sentence

What does "First Person Point of View" mean?

• The story is told by a narrator OUTSIDE of the story

• The story is told by the main character INSIDE the story (using "I" or "me")

What is the "Third Person Point of View" mean?

• The story is told by a character INSIDE the story

• The story is told by someone OUTSIDE the story

A selection means-

• the whole passage

• part of the passage

• chapter in the passage

• setting

Author's Purpose is--

• What the author is writing about

• Why the author wrote the selection

• When the author wrote the selection

• The genre of the passage the author wrote

image

• picture

• story

• text feature

• tell about