STAAR Review Terms

What is Rising Action?

• What water boils to the top

• The series of events that create suspense and interest in a story

• As the plot winds down and the suspense lessens, and events start to fall into place

• The beginning where the setting, characters and central conflict are introduced

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is Climax

• A pop band from the 80's

• The part in which the plot's suspense reaches its peak, the turning point of the story

• The series of events that create suspense and interest

• The way the characters solve the problem

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Describing saying one thing has the qualities of another thing, without using like or as

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Other words or information in a passage that help the reader understand the meaning of an unknown word

• vocabulary word

• context clues

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What vocabulary word means something that proves or disproves something; proof

• temerity

• dogmatic

• evidence

• extraneous

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Details or evidence- such as facts, examples, or notes- that supports the author's ideas

• supporting detail

• main idea

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

Excessive exaggeration, making a big deal out of something

• climax

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A struggle or problem that sets a story in motion.

• climax

• conflict

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

The turning point in the plot of the story, sometimes described as the most exciting part of the story.

• climax

• conflict

• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Language that is not meant to be taken literally

• plot

• refrain

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4