STAAR Vocabulary Review
English
- Q. The atmosphere or feeling created by a writer. "READER CENTERED" Influenced by the setting. Ex. romantic, soothing, chilling.
- Q. Conversation between two or more people
- Q. Time and place the story takes place.
- Q. A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, sports, history, movies, or the arts. Helps the reader visualize the image. Ex. "Leslie's mysterious smile rivals the Mona Lisa."
- Q. The anxiety the reader feels about what may happen next in a story.
- Q. The most interesting event in the story, the most exciting.
- Q. For what reason did the author write the passage.
- Q. Hints or clues suggesting what may happen later in a story.
- Q. The standpoint from which a story is told.
- Q. Not just what you see, but all five senses: touch, smell, sight, taste, and sound.
- Q. The attitude the writer takes over the subject or the reader. Writer Centered. Ex. Serious, Nervous, Depressed.
- Q. to bring clearly before the mind : present <a book which represents the character of early America>
- Q. The reader gathers information, considers the thoughts, and comes to a decision.
- Q. To cause a character to act in a certain way.
- Q. Interrupting the plot of the story to recreate an incident of earlier time.
- Q. One person/character doing all the talking.
- Q. To reduce large sections of text to their important points.
- Q. Open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning.
- Q. The series of events within a story.
- Q. Lesson learned about life in a story. What the story teaches you.
- Q. A statement that tells what a passage is mostly about
- Q. Visual representations of data to help the
- Q. an educated guess based on the information within the story.
- Q. The pattern the author uses to organize his or her ideas:
- Q. A story of connected events.
- Q. When the author/writer uses commonly held but unfair ideas about a group to make a point that isn't true. Ex. "Women belong in the kitchen."
- Q. Short descriptions under photos or illustrations that
- Q. The details in the text that support a claim or an opinion.
- Q. Overstating something- in other words "stretching the truth.