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STAAR Vocabulary Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A feature of a Fiction passage

a)

climax

b)

facts

c)

caption

d)

heading

2.

A theme is

a)

problem

b)

message or lesson learned.

c)

main idea

d)

autobiography

3.

Point of view is

a)

main idea of the story

b)

problem of the story

c)

climax in the story

d)

The perspective from which a story is told.

4.

Chronological order

a)

main idea

b)

most important events of a story

c)

time order in which events happens

d)

turning point of the story

5.

To summarize a story it is best to use the following strategy

a)

BME

b)

BMED

c)

SWBST

d)

WBS

6.

SWBST stands for

a)

Somebody Wanted But So Then

b)

SO WHAT BUT SO THEN

c)

SOMETHING WHEN BUT SO THEN

d)

She Wanted BUT Somebody THEN

7.

The context of time and place in which the action of a story occurs. How might this influence a story or create a mood?

a)

priorities

b)

setting

c)

speech

d)

infer

8.

Makes you think of something

a)

simile

b)

subheadings

c)

opposing

d)

suggests

9.

A conclusion one can be one can draw from the presented details. A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.

a)

setting

b)

opinion

c)

infer

d)

tone

10.

What is imagery?

a)

A picture

b)

A summary of the main point

c)

A collection of words that appeal to the reader's senses, such as metaphors, similes, alliteration, etc.

d)

An idea sustained throughout the story

11.

An inference is

a)

A guess

b)

A thought

c)

A reasonable conclusion based on information you know and learned from the story

d)

main idea of the story

12.

The narrator is

a)

The person telling the story

b)

main character

c)

enemy of the main character

d)

person listening to the story

13.

A stanza is

a)

similar to a paragraph but in a poem

b)

a line in a fiction story

c)

something made or written by someone

d)

an attempt to persuade someone of a topic

14.

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

a)

problem solution

b)

plot development

c)

stage directions

d)

text structures

15.

An author's attitude toward his subject- can be positive, negative, or neutral.

a)

tone

b)

mood

c)

claim

d)

detail