STAAR RLA Vocabulary

What does 'summary' mean?

• relationship

• Just the important events of the story

• picture

• show

What is a 'topic sentence'?

• point of view: the perspective from which the events in the story, poem, or play are told

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

• the perspective from which the events in a story, poem, or play are told

• a sentence that describes what a paragraph or section of text is mainly about

What does 'conclude' mean?

• tell

• imagine

• to decide, to judge

• give

hints at

• does not suggest

• guarantees

• defines

• suggests

contrast

• to find differences between things

• communicate

• relationship

• imagine

highlight

• show

• give

• tell

• explain

reason

• to help

• the why

• talking to

• mainly.

What is the meaning of 'visualize'?

• give

• analyze

• imagine

• forget

What is the meaning of 'infer'?

• tell

• a guess based on clues

• described

• imagine

viewpoint

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

• point of view: the perspective from which the events in the story, poem, or play are told

• a personal view that can be proved

• the author's choice of words and the order in which they are used