STAAR

Words like BAM, BOOM, and CRASH are examples of...

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

When an author uses descriptive language and creates images in your head it is called...

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Plot

What the text is mostly about is called the...

• Main Idea

• Supporting Detail

• Central Idea

• Mostly Idea

The paragraphs in a poem are called...

• Lines

• Plot

• Conflict

• Stanzas

giving human qualities to a non-human thing

• personification

• parody

• plot

narrator tells the story, not a character. (uses he, she, and they)

• First-person

• Third-person

• Third-person limited

• Third-person omniscient 

form of writing, often in rhyme, that tells a story or describes something

• Poetry

• Drama

• Myth

• Fiction 

What is the primary purpose of the STAAR test in English?

• A) To assess mathematical skills

• B) To evaluate reading and writing proficiency

• C) To test scientific knowledge

• D) To measure physical fitness

Which of the following is a common component of the STAAR English test?

• A) Algebra problems

• B) Reading comprehension passages

• C) Chemical equations

• D) Historical timelines

In the context of STAAR English, what does 'revision' typically involve?

• A) Solving math problems

• B) Correcting grammatical errors

• C) Conducting scientific experiments

• D) Drawing historical maps