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STAAR TERMS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Italicized | Printing of the sloping kind of typeface used esp. for emphasis or distinction and in foreign words. |
| Assumption | a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof |
| Illustrate | explain or make (something) clear by using examples, charts, pictures. |
| Conclude | to bring (something) to an end |
| Dialogue | conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie |
| excerpt | a short extract from a film, broadcast, or piece of music or writing |
| Playwright | one who writes plays |
| Protagonist | the main character. |
| Antagonist | someone who opposes the main character(protagonist) |
| Symbolic Imagery | is imagery that is not descriptive of a scene, but is intended to express an abstract idea in concrete form. |
| References | the action of mentioning or alluding to something |
| Dramatic Irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect |
| Object Point Of View | is when the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue |
| Figurative Language | is the use of words that go beyond their ordinary meaning. |
| Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. |
| Hyperbole | is the use of words that go beyond their ordinary meaning. |
| Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. |
| Assonance | in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. |
| Personification | the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form. |
| Onomatopeia | the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. |
| Imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work. |
| Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. |
| Flashback | a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. |
| Genre | a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. |
| Narrative | a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. |
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