6th Grade STAAR Review

a large portion of a play

• Exposition

• poetry

• Act

• Compare and Contrast

the repetition of the beginning sound of a word

• supporting detail

• Author's viewpoint

• Alliteration

• Expository

words that have opposite or nearly opposite meanings

• Antonyms

• Analogy

• Conflict

• synonyms

an attempt to persuade someone on a topic open to debate

• Argument

• description

• Incorrect premise

• root

the reason the author wrote the passage

• Summary

• Author's Purpose

• Opinion

• Allusion

the reason something happens, such as an event or action

• Context clue

• Opinion

• third-person objective

• Cause

a person, animal, or other creature in a work of fiction

• stage directions

• hyperbole

• Character

• establish

a statement of the author's opinion

• speaker

• Claim

• Epigraph

• Epic Poetry

the turning point in the story, usually the most exciting part

• sequence

• Drama

• Climax

• Poetry

to study the similarities between two things

• Extended metaphor

• stage directions

• idiom

• Compare