STAAR Vocabulary Test

When the author gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea, it is called:

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Sensory Language

What is the way the problem in the story, poem, or play is solved?

• Conflict

• Resolution

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

Which organizational structure describes a problem first and then its solution?

• Detail

• Problem-Solution

• Claim

• Dialogue

What is the perspective from which the events in a story, poem, or play are told?

• Speaker

• Point of View

• Mood

• Imagery

Which organizational structure describes people, places, events, or ideas?

• Problem-Solution

• Cause-and-Effect

• Descriptive

• Compare-and-Contrast

What is the central message or moral of a story, poem, or play?

• Conflict

• Theme

• Speaker

• Resolution

What is the main problem in a story, poem, or play?

• Contrast

• Dialogue

• Conflict

• Description

What is the part of the story, poem, or play before the climax?

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Resolution

What is the narrator of a poem called?

• Speaker

• Stage Directions

• Playwright

• Stanza

When the author uses details and descriptions that appeal to the reader's senses, it is called: (PICK TWO)

• Sensory Language

• Speaker

• Imagery

• Simile