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Worksheets2019 STAAR Terms Review
Total questions: 64
Worksheet time: 33mins
A conversation between two characters in a story is--
Dialogue
Monologue
Prologue
Soliloquy
When one character speaks for a long period of time--
Dialogue
Monologue
Speech
Conversation
Stage directions in a play show--
How the stage in a theater is set up
The dialogue between characters
The names of the characters
Where an actor moves and the tone of their voice
Descriptions that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell)
Metaphors
Personification
Imagery/sensory images/sensory language
Hyperbole
Which of these is an example of alliteration?
Fred finds four frogs in the forest.
The building was as old as a dinosaur.
Overhead, the branches of the tree reached out to grab us.
I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow!
If a word or detail is unnecessary and repetitive, it is--
Unreliable
Relevant
Conflicted
Redundant
An apostrophe shows--
Possession (Example: Mike's house is big)
The amount of something (Example: There were six student's)
A character's or author's attitude towards someone or something--
Mood
Sentiment
Tone
Conflict
A short story about a person, event, or thing--
Imagery
Anecdote
Fairy tale
Claim
If a statement is believable, trustworthy, and factually correct, it is--
Relevant
Redundant
Credible
Unreliable
An attitude or feeling towards a situation, event, or person is a---
Claim
Opinion
Symbol
Sentiment
If a multiple choice question on the essay revision asks you to "clarify" a word, you need to find the word that is--
The same meaning
Less specific
More specific
If a multiple choice question on the essay revision asks you to find a better transition word at the beginning of a sentence, you need to--
Look at the sentence before the transition word
Look at the sentence after the transition word
In an essay revision multiple choice question, the term "position statement" is the same as--
Thesis statement
Conclusion
Main idea
If a multiple choice question on the essay revision asks you to "add in a detail that best supports and follows", you need to--
Look at the ideas presented in the sentences that come BEFORE the detail you will add in
Look at the ideas presented in the sentences that come AFTER the detail you will add in
"Next year, we will be sophomores in high school." Do you need to capitalize the words "high school?"
Yes, it is the name of a place!
No, it is NOT the name of a specific place and is NOT a proper noun!
A semicolon ( ; ) is used to--
Separate two independent clauses that are closely related
Separate two dependent clauses that are closely related
My mom always told me "Work hard and I have no doubt you will be successful!"
Change "mom" to "Mom"
Change "have" to "had"
Insert a comma after "me"
Make no change
"Let's go eat Chinese food after school" said Marcus.
Change "Marcus" to "marcus"
Make no change
Insert an exclamation mark after "school"
Insert a comma after "school"
When you use "quotation marks" in a sentence, you will always have--
An even number of quotation marks
An odd number of quotation marks
Your essay prompt will ALWAYS start with the words--
"What do you think..."
"Write an essay..."
"Think carefully..."
"Give your opinion..."
What section should you do first on the STAAR Test?
The paired text
The essay
Revise and edit
After you finish the essay first on the STAAR test, you should--
Sleep
Do the section you feel most confident about next
When you are finished with your STAAR Test, you should--
Assume that you already bubbled in all your answer choices and don't check.
Check your answer sheet to make sure all your answer choices are bubbled.
You should always bubble in your answer choices--
As you go- don't wait for until the end!
At the end
If a detail fits into an essay and supports the thesis or idea of the essay, it is--
Reliable
Untrustworthy
Relevant
Symbolism is--
The main lesson learned in the story
When an object, event, or person represents an idea or feeling
If an author "depicts" or "portrays" something, he or she is--
Criticizing it
Describing it
Giving an opinion about it
A thesis should always show--
The main opinion or idea of the essay
The life lesson
The sequence of events that occurs in a story--
Main idea
Conflict
Plot
Conclusion
The lesson that ANYONE (not just the characters) can learn from the story--
Central argument
Main idea
Author's purpose
Theme
The opposite of what is expected or the opposite of what is said--
Irony
Point of view
Humor
If an author suggests that something is true without actually saying it directly in the text, they--
Create
Describe
Imply
Which sentence is written correctly?
I am too stressed out to sleep.
I am to stressed out to sleep.
How often will "Make no change" be the correct answer on the revise and edit section of STAAR?
All the time!
Almost never- maybe once on the whole STAAR Test!
If a question asks "the reader can conclude..." you will need to--
Make an inference!
Find the answer word-for-word in the text!
If an author "substantiates" their opinion, they are--
Giving their opinion
Supporting their opinion
Which sentence is written correctly?
There is less THAN a day until STAAR.
There is less THEN a day until STAAR.
If a narrator is "reliable," they are--
Trustworthy
Untrustworthy
If a narrator is "unreliable," they are--
Trustworthy
Untrustworthy
If someone has very little experience, wisdom, or judgement, they are--
Reliable
Naive
Omniscient
If a narrator knows all the inner thoughts and feelings of all the characters in a story, the narrator is--
Limited
Omniscient
Naive
If a narrator DOES NOT KNOW all the inner thoughts and feelings of all the characters in a story, the narrator is--
Limited
Omniscient
Reliable
When a narrator tells events from their own point of view, it is--
First person
Third person
When a narrator tells a story from an outsider's point of view using "he, she, they, it, etc."--
First person
Third person
Giving human qualities or characteristics to nonhuman things--
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Personification
Which is correct?
Alot is one word.
A lot is two words.
Which is correct?
You're an excellent student.
Your an excellent student.
Which is correct?
You're backpack is on the floor.
Your backpack is on the floor.
Although we have extra cookies, we don't want to share it with the other students.
Change "students" to "student's"
Delete the comma after "cookies"
Change "it" to "them"
Make no change
Which sentence is written correctly?
They're my best friends.
There my best friends.
Their my best friends.
Which sentence is written correctly?
Please hang your coat over their.
Please hang your coat over there.
Please hang your coat over they're.
Which sentence is written correctly?
There house is next to mine.
Their house is next to mine.
They're house is next to mine.
Cristiano Ronaldo, a professional soccer player has 148 million Instagram followers.
Change "professional" to "Professional"
Delete the comma after "Ronaldo"
Insert a comma after "player"
Make no change
One sentence stating the overall idea in a story/what the story is about--
Main idea
Theme
If an author states an opinion, they are making a--
Claim
Fact
Summary
A short passage in the middle of a paragraph, usually in (parentheses), that is directed towards the audience/reader--
Aside
Summary
Paragraph
An argument/opinion based on facts--
Logical argument
Ethical argument
Emotional argument
An argument/opinion based on what is right and wrong--
Logical argument
Emotional argument
Ethical argument
An argument/opinion based on emotions and feelings--
Logical argument
Emotional argument
Ethical argument
If you have an answer choice asking you to change the spelling of a word, you should--
Guess- you probably know how to spell everything off the top of your head anyway!
NOT GUESS- use the dictionary to confirm if it is the correct answer!
An argument or opinion that opposes another existing argument or opinion--
Counterargument
Reliable opinion
Statistical argument
Language such as metaphor, simile, personification, and hyperbole that the author uses, and is NOT literal--
Figurative language
Sensory images
Thematic language
If an author is trying to show something to the reader and make them understand a feeling or idea, they are trying to--
Convey
Confuse
Symbolize
