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Reading STAAR Vocab.
STAAR Prep
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| act | large section of a play |
| affix | letters added to the beginning or ending of a word to change its meaning (prefix, suffix) |
| alliteration | the repetition of the same starting sound ( Wally walked to Walmart.) |
| author's purpose | why an author writes a text |
| autobiography | a story about someone's life written by that person |
| biography | a story about someone's life written by someone else |
| cast | a group of actors |
| cause | the "why"- happens 1st |
| climax | the most important part of the story (heart) |
| conclusion | the final event in a story |
| conflict | also known as the problem |
| dialogue | what is being spoken/talking |
| drama | a work that is meant to be preformed on stage |
| effect | what "happened" -happens 2nd |
| fact | can be measured, observed, and proven true |
| falling action | events in a story after the climax |
| fantasy | a genre that has magical/make believe elements |
| first person narrator | a person in the story is telling it from their perspective |
| free verse poetry | no rhyme or rhythm- just sounds like talking |
| genre | a type of literature |
| historical fiction | a story that is set in the past, but it is fiction |
| illustration | picture or image |
| inference | a decision based on text evidence and your own knowledge |
| introduction | the beginning of the story, where we learn the characters and the problem |
| line break | where the line of text ends |
| lyrical poetry | follows a pattern/ has a song like feel |
| metaphor | compares two unlike things WITHOUT using like or as |
| narrator | the person telling the story |
| nonfiction | informational text that is true |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that imitate the words they describe |
| opinion | a personal thought or feeling |
| playwright | the author of a play or drama |
| plot | the events that make up the story |
| poetry | a type of literature that can have stanzas or lines |
| realistic fiction | a story that is fiction, but could happen in real life |
| repetition | lines or words that are repeated showing importance |
| resolution | how the story ended |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhyming in a poem |
| rhythm | the beat of the poem |
| rising action | the events in a story before the climax |
| scene | a small section in a play |
| setting | when and where the story takes place |
| simile | comparing two unlike things USING like or as |
| stage directions | written in italics and parentheses--tells feelings, settings, or actions of the play |
| stanza | group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph |
| theme | overall message, moral, life lesson of the story |
| third person narrator | a person outside the story is telling it |
| Synonym | a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase |
| Antonym | a word opposite in meaning to another |
| Central conflict | the main problem in the story |
| Trait | a distinguishing quality or characteristic belonging to a person |
| Motivation | the reason one has for acting or behaving in a particular way |
| Foreshadow | a warning or indication of a future event |
| Imagery | author's use of language that appeals to the five senses in order to help the reader paint a picture in their minds |
| Mood | a literally element creates a certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions |
| Speaker | The "voice" of the poem or the "person" who is "speaking" the poem (it's from their point of view) |
| Stance/viewpoint/position | attitude of a person or organization towards something |
| Props | the objects or items that are on stage during a play. They always have a purpose for being on stage! |
| Scenes | the minor sections a play is divided into. Each scene often has a DIFFERENT SETTING. |
| Acts | the major sections a play is divided into. The beginning of a new act can be set in a different place and be set further ahead in time. |
| Figurative Language | using figures of speech to go beyond the literal meanings of words to make the reading more impactful |
| Sensory Language | Use of details from the five sense to help the reader visualize something |
| Selection | also know as the passage or article |
| Diagram | A picture that shows the parts of something, has labels |
| Subheading | Divides the text into sections and explains what the sections will be about |
| Main Idea | what the text is mostly about--NOT a DETAIL |
| Italics | Slanted print that shows that a word is important |
| Suspense | feeling excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen |
| anecdote | a short, interesting person about a real person or incident |
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