8th Grade ELA STAAR Review - Academic Vocabulary

This character changes as a result of the story's events.

• flat

• protaganist

• static

• dynamic

The qualities that define a character.

• character traits

• theme

• conflict

• tone

The pattern of end rhyme in a poem.

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• imperfect rhyme

• rhyme scheme

When the narrator is also a character in the story. This narrator is unreliable.

• 1st person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person objective

• 2nd person

A poem that expresses the feelings and emotions of the poem's speaker.

• sonnet poem

• epic poem

• narrative poem

• lyric poem

To put something in your own words

• summarize

• paraphrase

• thesis

• details

Using emotionally charged words to cloud thinking.

• loaded terms

• false assumption

• logical fallacy

• cry baby appeal

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

• dialogue

• stage directions

• moving lines

• directions

The writer's position on a problem or issue.

• opinion

• premise

• claim

• loaded term

Using facts, reasons and evidence to back up one's position to persuade.

• ethical appeal

• logical appeal

• emotional appeal

• fact appeal