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

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

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

• point of view

• advantage-and-disadvantage organizational structure

• mood

• organized

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

• detail

• whether

• personification

• chronological organizational structure

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

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

• falling action

• effective

• develop

• detail

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

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

• connotative

• critique

• credibility

• clarity

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

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

• rising action

• significant

• cause-and-effect organizational structure

• organized

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

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

• chronologically

• simile

• personification

• sensory language

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

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

• diagram

• stanza

• imagery

• contribute to

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Writing that appeals to one or more of the senses.

• imagery

• sensory language

• chronological organizational structure

• presented

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

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

• sensory language

• interaction

• theme

• simile

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.8.6