RLA STAAR Prep

This structure helps break longer pieces of writing into smaller portions that are grouped together because they happened around the same time or because they share a similar meaning. Each sentence, paragraph, or chapter fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of ideas. Organizational structures include chronological order, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution. (RL5)

• structure

• flashback

• inference

• setting

a relationship in which one thing causes another thing to happen . (RL5)

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• chronological

  order

• point of view

 analyzes the relationships between ideas in a text .

Comparing analyzes the similarities, while contrasting analyzes the differences . (RL5, RL6, RL9)

• compare and contrast

• cause and effect

• chronological order

• literary texts

shifts in the storyline to the past to give readers important information to help them understand the story better . (RL5)

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• dramatic irony

• inference

hints in the narrative of what is to come in the plot in the future .

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• objective

  summary

• resolution

perspective from which a story is told.

Depends on who the narrator is and how much he or she knows.

Could be first person (I went to the store), second person (You went to the store), or third person (He went to the store). (RL6)

• point of view

• plot

• figurative language

• central idea

when the reader knows something that the characters do not know . (RL6)

• dramatic

  irony

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• inference

the category of a text, such as fiction or nonfiction .

Each _____ has a particular style, form, and content .

The _____ of fiction can be divided into more specific categories . For example, a myth is a specific type of fiction that tells a traditional story using supernatural characters and events . (RL9)

• genre

• characterization

• objective

  summary

• theme

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

Writers use dialogue and events in a story to...

• provoke a decision

• propel the action in a story or move the plot forward

• reveal aspects of a character

• all of the above