RLA STAAR Vocabulary

a stage in the writing process when a written text is prepared for an audience by attending to and correcting mechanics, grammar, and spelling

• Editing

• Digital text

• Context

paraphrased or directly quoted detail(s) from a text that supports a reader's claim, thought, inference, or analysis about the text

• Evidence

• Editing

• Digital text

the author's particular attitude, either stated or implied in writing

• Tone

• Text structure

• Synthesize

to present the ideas or word of another as one's own without crediting the source

• Plagiarize

• Paraphrase

• Multimodal

the main character in a narrative who is at the center of the story

• Protagonist

• Flashback

• Figurative language

figurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities (e.g., necessity is the mother of invention)

• Personification

• Mood

• Meter

the basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• Plot

• Personification

• Mood

a word that relates its object to another word in the sentence

• Preposition

• Logical fallacy

• Hyperbole

to reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea. Note: It is still important to attribute summarized ideas to the original source

• Summarize

• Style

• Organizational patterns

to combine elements and parts to form a coherent whole

• Synthesize

• Summarize

• Style