STAAR ELA Review Vocabulary

The event or decision that begins a story's problem or conflict.

• inciting incident

• setting

• character trait

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

The feeling or emotion the reader gets when reading a passage.

• tone

• mood

• foreshadowing

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

A hint about events that will happen later that builds suspense

• flashback

• mood

• foreshadowing

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The attitude that the author has about the subject.

• theme

• symbolism

• mood

• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

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

• temerity

• dogmatic

• evidence

• extraneous

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to imagine or form a mental picture of

• stanza

• foreshadowing

• detect

• visualize

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Comparing two unlike things by saying that one thing is the other.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Comparing two unlike things using the words like or as.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

An extreme exaggeration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simle

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4