STAAR Fiction Vocabulary

The _____ of the story had many twists and turns.

• setting

• plot

• foreshadow

• point of View

When an author gives hints or suggestions to what happens later in a story, it is called...

• suspense

• moral

• foreshadowing

• events

Fiction

• has characters and setting

• gives facts

• has a plot

• gives information

• not real

a literary device that uses sensory details or language to create mental images and sensory impressions

• contribute

• imagery

• reveal

• figurative language

Mario had been feeding him all the things he liked himself, but now it occurred to him that what was good for a boy might not be right for a cricket. So he made up his mind to take the matter to an expert. Late one afternoon, Mario cleaned up the cricket cage and took Chester the cricket to Mr. Fong's pet shop.

Read the dictionary definition for the word matter.

Which definition best fits the way the word matter is used in paragraph 1?

• Definition 1

• Definition 2

• Definition 3

• Definition 4

Flashback

• looking back into the past

• giving hints about something that might happen

• what the passage is mostly about

Foreshadow

• looking back into the past

• giving hints about something that might happen

• what the passage is mostly about

dialogue

• instructions given to characters in a drama

• perspective from which a text is written

• moral of a story

• words spoken by characters in a text

point of view

• perspective from which a text is written

• disagreeing with someone

• made up story

• compares two things using like or as

setting

• a true story

• time and place in a story

• first sentence of a paragraph

• comparing differences