7th grade STAAR Vocabulary

The part of the script of a play that tells the actors how they are to move or speak their lines.

• problem solution

• plot development

• stage directions

• text structures

SWBST stands for

• Somebody Wanted But So Then

• SO WHAT BUT SO THEN

• SOMETHING WHEN BUT SO THEN

• She Wanted BUT Somebody THEN

What is imagery?

• A picture

• A summary of the main point

• A collection of words that appeal to the reader's senses, such as metaphors, similes, alliteration, etc.

• An idea sustained throughout the story

A conclusion one can be one can draw from the presented details. A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.

• setting

• opinion

• infer

• tone

An author's attitude toward his subject- can be positive, negative, or neutral.

• tone

• mood

• claim

• detail

Chronological order

• main idea

• most important events of a story

• time order in which events happens

• turning point of the story

Point of view is

• main idea of the story

• problem of the story

• climax in the story

• The perspective from which a story is told.

The narrator is

• The person telling the story

• main character

• enemy of the main character

• person listening to the story

Makes you think of something

• simile

• subheadings

• opposing

• suggests

A theme is

• problem

• message or lesson learned.

• main idea

• autobiography