click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
STAAR definitons
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Italicized | Pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters normally slope to the right pattered upon a manuscript hand, and used for emphasis to separate different kinds of information. |
assumption | Something taken from granted. |
illustrate | To furnish with drawings,paintings, pictures, or other artwork intended for further explanation. |
conclude | To bring to an end, terminate, finish, etc. |
dialogue | Conversation between two or more people. |
excerpt | A passage or quotation taken or selected from a book, document, film, or the like. |
playwright | A writer of plays |
protagonist | The leading character or hero in literature. |
antagonist | A person or thing that goes against the hero. |
symbolic imagery | imagery that is not descriptive of a scene, but is intended to express an abstract idea in concrete form. |
references | An act or instance of referring. |
dramatic irony | Irony that is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters. |
objective point of view | when the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue. |
figurative language | of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor. |