RLA STAAR Vocabulary

The perspective from which the events in a story, poem, or play are told

• descriptive organizational structure

• point of view

• key idea

• interaction

The way the author makes the reader feel through certain words or details

• point of view

• advantage-and-disadvantage organizational structure

• mood

• organized

When the author gives human qualities to an object, animal, or idea

• detail

• whether

• personification

• chronological organizational structure

The part of the story, poem, or play after the climax but before the ending

• falling action

• effective

• develop

• detail

You lied to me the last time. Sorry, your have no _____ with me anymore.

• connotative

• critique

• credibility

• clarity

The part of the story, poem, or play before the climax

• rising action

• significant

• cause-and-effect organizational structure

• organized

A comparison of two things that are not alike using the words like or as

• chronologically

• simile

• personification

• sensory language

When the author uses details and descriptions that appeal to the reader's senses

• diagram

• stanza

• imagery

• contribute to

Writing that appeals to one or more of the senses.

• imagery

• sensory language

• chronological organizational structure

• presented

The central idea, message, or moral of a story, poem, or play

• sensory language

• interaction

• theme

• simile