Quizlet: 4th Grade STAAR Vocabulary 52 questions

Definition: what a piece of writing is mostly about.

• theme

• plot

• main idea

• point of view

Definition: letters added to the beginning of the word to make a new word.

• suffix

• simile

• message

• prefix

Definition: how the author sees something (his perspective) and affects the way he writes about it.

• theme

• point of view

• setting

• plot

Definition: words that mean the opposite.

• antonyms

• synonyms

• context clues

• suffix

Definition: how the problem is solved in a story.

• setting

• plot

• climax

• resolution

Definition: a passage that tells a made-up story.

• a) narrator

• b) fiction

• c) plot

• d) poetry

Definition: The author provides information about the similarities and differences between two or more people, events, ideas, objects, etc.

• a) Text Structure: Compare and Contrast

• b) resolution

• c) Text Structure: Cause and Effect

• d) important/supporting details

Definition: The text features a detailed description of something to give the reader a mental picture.

• text structure: descriptive

• first-person point of view

• informational (nonfiction)

• third-person point of view

Definition: the author presents a problem and explains one or more solutions to the problem

• text structure- descriptive

• Text Structure: Problem and Solution

• Text Structure: Cause and Effect

• resolution

Definition: when someone NOT in the story tells the story, like an invisible observer (he, she, they, etc.)

• motivation

• theme

• third-person point of view

• third-person omniscient