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STAAR Vocab
STAAR VOCABB
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Context Clues | Clues in a text that help the reader determine the meaning of a word |
| Flashback | When the story goes back in time |
| Stage Directions | Instructions for actors |
| Fiction | Literary work that is not real. It is usually made up. |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that represents sounds |
| Narrator | Speaker or the person who is telling the story |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration |
| Climax | The turning point of the story |
| Expository | The sequence of events in a story |
| Main Idea | What a piece of writing is mainly about |
| Conflict | Parts of of a text that stand out (diagram, table of contents, etc) |
| Dialogue | A conversation between 2 people |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as |
| Plot | The problem in a story |
| Setting | When and where the story takes place |
| Suffix | A word part that can be added to the end of a word to make a new word |
| Foreshadow | Clues that indicate something will happen later on in the story or future |
| Text Features | Text that informs, gives instructions and is nonfiction |
| Author's Purpose | The reason a story is written- to persuade, inform, entertain or explain |
| Point of View | The perspective from which the story is told |
| Stanza | The "paragraph" in a poem |
| Resolution | The solution to a problem or final outcome of a story |
| Personification | Giving human qualitles to non-human things |
| Drama | A story written to be performed by actors; a play |
| Simile | Comparing two things using "like" or "as" |
| Autobiography | The story of a person's life written by that person |
| Playwright | Person who wrote a play/drama |
| Theme | The central idea or message of the story |
| Prefix | A word part that can be added to the beginning of a word to make a new word |
| 1st person point of view | Story told from the view point of one chatacter using "I" and "we" |
| Drawing conclusion | Collecting clues to make an inference |
| Nonfiction | Writing that is factual, true not made up or fictional |
| Summary | A brief statement of main events of a story |