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Reading STAAR Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the definition of characterize?

a)

Characterize means to describe someone or something.

b)

Characterize means to eat pizza.

c)

Characterize means to represent or stand for something else.

d)

Characterize means to have an effect on someone.

2.

Select the definition of symbolize.

a)

To describe someone or something.

b)

To represent or stand for something.

c)

To carefully judge someone or something.

3.
Examine in detail the structure of something, typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation.
a)
Influence
b)
Contribute
c)
Analyze
d)
Indicate
4.
Stating of another piece of writing in your own words is?
a)
glossary
b)
source
c)
paraphrase
d)
quote
5.
Anything that supplies information is a?
a)
works cited
b)
database
c)
reliable
d)
source
6.
Briefly retelling the main ideas of a piece of writing in your own words is?
a)
primary source
b)
relevant
c)
secondary source
d)
summarizing
7.
What is an excerpt?
a)
a book or story
b)
a quotation
c)
an inference
d)
a piece of a larger writing
8.
What does primarily mean?
a)
mostly or most importantly
b)
first or at the beginning
c)
not very important
d)
inference or conclusion
9.
A questions that asks for supporting details or something that supports an idea is asking for...
a)
an inference
b)
evidence
c)
a selection
d)
a definition
10.
Most likely means...
a)
not really
b)
not very true
c)
at the beginning
d)
probably
11.
Non-fiction is...
a)
true and informational
b)
not real
12.
In the question, "Which sentence best  illustrates Noah's conflict?", illustrates means: 
a)
evidence
b)
names
c)
explains 
d)
infers
13.
The time and place of a story
a)
resolution
b)
climax
c)
setting
14.

If an author wanted a detail or concept to show as important they may want to put extra _________________ on it by writing it in bold text or underlining it.

a)

contribute

b)

emphasis

c)

suggest

d)

imagery

15.

When something benefits something else it is ...

a)

not good.

b)

strange.

c)

helpful.

d)

using the 5 senses.

16.

A viewpoint can represents the __________________of an author.

a)

question

b)

plot

c)

summary

d)

thinking or mindset

17.

Conversation between characters in a story is an author's use of _____________________ and will usually include quotations marks.

a)

inference

b)

dialect

c)

emphasis

d)

dialogue

18.

Sensory language is used by an author to show...

a)

what something was before it changed.

b)

a decision.

c)

what something smells like, looks like, sounds like, feels like, or how it tastes.

d)

a good result.

19.

When a STAAR reading question asks you about what something 'suggests', it is referring to what the detail...

a)

hints at, or causes one to think.

b)

explains using examples.

c)

show is important.

d)

concludes.

20.
An order using time.
a)
Sequence
b)
Chronological
c)
Description
21.
The paragraphs of poetry.
a)
Excerpt
b)
Stanzas
c)
Dialogue
d)
Lines
22.
A statement that can be proven true.
a)
Opinion
b)
Dialogue
c)
Excerpt
d)
Fact
23.
Hints in the text to help the reader understand a word.
a)
Synonym
b)
Context Clues
c)
Antonym
d)
Stage Directions
24.
The BME (PS) of a story.
a)
Summary
b)
Problem
c)
Fact
d)
Stanza
25.
The way the author organizes the text.
a)
Text Structure
b)
Text Features
c)
Exposition
d)
Stanzas
26.
The words that give the actors instructions on what to do in a play.
a)
Script
b)
Plot
c)
Stage Directions
d)
Props
27.
Guessing what will happen in the future.
a)
Flashback
b)
Prediction
c)
Climax
d)
Opinion
28.
The narrator is a character in the story.
a)
1st Person POV
b)
2nd Person POV
c)
3rd Person POV
d)
Character
29.
The narrator is not a character in the story.
a)
1st Person POV
b)
3rd person POV
c)
2nd Person POV
d)
Protagonist
30.

The text of a play, film, or broadcast

a)

structure

b)

dialogue

c)

script

31.
What compares 2 unlike things without using like or as?
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
32.

Language that communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words

a)

literary elements

b)

elements of a story

c)

figurative language

33.
What gives non-human things human characterstics?
a)
alliteration
b)
personification
c)
metaphor
d)
simile
34.
What tells the moral or the lesson of the story?
a)
main idea
b)
point of view
c)
imagery
d)
theme
35.
What is the position in which the story is told from?
a)
1st person
b)
point of view
c)
3rd person
d)
7th person
36.
What is the general attitude of the poem?
a)
mood
b)
idea
c)
theme
d)
tone
37.
Sensory language used by the author helps the reader to see or visualize what they are reading. Choose an example of sensory language below.
a)
The walls shook and vibrated like the tail of a rattle snake. 
b)
It was extremely windy outside.
c)
The walls of the house shook.
d)
The wind blew the trees.
38.

To explain something to create a mental image in the reader’s mind - especially focusing on the five senses.

a)

analyze

b)

infer

c)

summarize

d)

describe

39.

To make something clear by giving reasons

a)

infer

b)

persuade

c)

cause

d)

explain

40.

First-person point of view

a)

You open your eyes and stretch.

b)

He yawned and sat up in bed.

c)

"Don't be late," his mom reminded.

d)

I cannot believe the weekend's over.

41.

The person who writes the play is the...

a)

director

b)

stage

c)

playwright

42.

what is plot?

a)

the events as they happen in a story

b)

when and where the story happens

c)

the problem

d)

how the story ends

43.

what is an opinion?

a)

something that is important

b)

emotional conflict within a character

c)

how someone feels about something

d)

a hint at the start of the story to an event that will happen later in the story

44.

What is an inference?

a)

What the text directly says

b)

Throwing a dart at your answers, seeing where it lands, and choosing the corresponding choice

c)

An educated guess based on text evidence

d)

Language whose meaning is different than what is literally stated

45.

What is the conflict of a story?

a)

A character's personality

b)

The character's problem - internal or external

c)

The time and place

d)

The lesson or message

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