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STAARvocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Narrator | speaker or the person telling the story |
| Expository | text that informs , give information and is nonfiction |
| Fiction | literary work that is not real. It is usually made up. |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike thing without using the words" like" or" as" |
| Setting | when and where the story takes place |
| Plot | the sequence of events in a story |
| Theme | The central idea or message of a story |
| Author's purpose | the reason a story was written -to persuade, inform, entertain or explain |
| Climax | the turning point of the story |
| Point of view | the perspective from which the story is told |
| Personification | giving human qualities to non-human things |
| Stage directions | instructions for actors |
| Conflict | the problem of the story |
| Main/Central idea | what a piece of writing is mainly about |
| Simile | comparing two things using the words" like "or "as" |
| 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 character using the words "I" and "We". |
| Dialogue | a conversation between two people |
| Hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| Summary | a brief statement of main events of a story |
| Onomatopoeia | words that represents sounds |
| Flashback | when the story goes back in time |
| Text features | parts of text that stand out (diagram, table of contexts, and etc) |
| Resolution | the solution to a problem or final outcome of a story |
| Context clues | clues in text that help the reader determine the meaning of a word |
| Drama | a story written to be performed by actors; a play |
| Playwright | person who wrote a play/drama |
| Stanza | the ''paragraph" in a poem |
| Suffix | a word part that can be added to the end of a word to make a new word |
| Nonfiction | writing that is factual, true not made up or fiction |
| Autobiography | the story of a person's life written by that person |
| Drawing conclusion | Collecting clues to make an inference |