STAAR Reading Terms

If the question includes the word suggests, I know that this is a or an _____________ question.

• right there

• vocabulary

• inference

• theme

STAAR Question: How does the setting influence the plot of a story?

How is influence being used in this sentence?

• beginning

• effect

• determine

• apply

Which figurative language uses words that imitate natural sounds?

• Alliteration

• Imagery

• Theme

• Onomatopoeia

Author's Purpose- Why the author is writing the text...Which answer choice is correct?

• Persuade, inform, explain, entertain

• Exaggeration, contradiction, parallelism, and comparison

• parallelism, exaggeration, inform, and persuade

• explain, entertain, comparison, contradiction

Language or written words that connects to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, tastes, and touch) to create an image or description for the reader?

• Author's Purpose

• Figurative Language

• Alliteration

• Sensory Language

Which text feature is a list of key terms in ABC order. Each of the key (important) words are defined (definition given).

• Table of Contents

• Caption

• Index

• Glossary

Using clues from the text to come up with an answer using only the information from the story?

• Inference; Infer; Drawing Conclusions

• Foreshadow

• Flashback

• Genre

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a poem.

• Onomatopoeia

• Rhyme Scheme

• Alliteration

• Stanza

The pattern of rhyme between lines in a poem?

• Internal Rhyme

• Free Verse

• Imagery

• Rhyme Scheme

How the author feels about his/her topic, and how he wants YOU to feel as a reader?

• Emphasis

• Author's Viewpoint

• Inference

• Author's Purpose