STAAR RLA Questions

How do you support a theme?

• Your opinion

• summarizing

• Textual evidence (at least 2 pieces of evidence)

• You cannot.

Diamond spent twelve hours working on her popsicle stick White House yesterday. Today, she noticed that there are bushes in front of the building, so she spent another six hours making bushes out of construction paper.

What character trait does Diamond demonstrate?

• Meticulous

• Cautious

• Intelligent

• Untidy

To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text

• inference

• dialogue

• tone

• point of view

The most important point or idea that the author is making in the passage.

• central idea /

  main idea

• resolution

• genre

• characterization

an overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions. (RL2)

• objective summary

• resolution

• central idea

• theme

refers to the way an author develops a character over the course of a text . (RL2, RL3, RL9)

• characterization

• propel the action

• plot

• dialogue

where and when a story takes place, including the time of day, the season, or the location . (RL2)

• objective summary

• propel the action

• setting

• plot

solution to the problem or end of the main dramatic conflict . (RL3)

• resolution

• propel the action

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

refers to the exact words the characters are saying and is set off from the rest of the text with quotation marks and commas

• dialogue

• figurative

  language

• flashback

• dramatic

  irony

occurs when particular lines of dialogue or specific incidents in a story cause something to happen.

For example, if a character has a change of mind, a change of heart, or makes a decision, the plot can move forward . (RL3)

• propel the action

• objective summary

• connotative language

• structure