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4th Reading A
Literary Terms STAAR A
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| author | person who writes a story |
| illustrator | person who creates the pictures that go with a story |
| character | person in the story |
| conclusion | how a story ends |
| fiction | not true |
| folktale | a story of long ago usually told |
| legend | a traditional story about long ago but cannot be proven |
| moral | lesson taught or learned |
| illustration | picture |
| poetry | poems |
| rhyme | words that sound the same at the end |
| rhythm | the beat; regular musical sound |
| drama | a play |
| poet | a person that writes poems |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem |
| line | a group of words in a poem |
| prediction | a guess of what will happen |
| character's actions | things a person in the story does |
| character's feelings | how a person in the story feels |
| personification | given human characteristic to nonhuman objects |
| set of a play | the scenery and props on stage |