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STAAR Study Guide
Study Guide
Question | Answer |
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persuade | trying to convince the reader something |
inform | giving facts and information (possible trying to teach the reader something) |
Entertain | the author wants you to enjoy the story by keeping the readers attention |
explain | written in steps for the reader to follow |
describe | sensory language is used to describe a topic |
Simile | a comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as, than, resembles |
metaphor | a comparison that speaks of one thing as if it is another- a DIRECT comparison |
Personification | An implied comparison that gives human traits to non-human objects |