Figurative Language
STAAR Strategies
Poetry
Drama
Expository Text
100
A comparison of unlike items using the word "like" or "as"
What is simile?
100
The first ten minutes of the test.
What is skimming and scanning the test and ranking the stories?
100
A group of poetic lines corresponding to a paragraph
What is a stanza?
100
Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play
What are props?
100
Expository text that tells the story of someone's life.
What is biography?
200
An exxageration.
What is hyperbole?
200
The story or text you begin with.
What is the most challenging passage?
200
The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The listing and explanation of roles at the beginning of the play or drama.
What is the cast of characters?
200
The lines of text underneath a photograph.
What is a caption?
300
A comparison of unlike items without using "like" or "as", such as "Your love is kryptonite".
What is metaphor?
300
The student should do this the night before the STAAR test.
What is get a good night's sleep?
300
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words
What is rhyme?
300
Divisions of the play, similiar to chapters in a book.
What are Acts and Scenes?
300
The author's purpose for expository text
What is to explain or inform the reader?
400
The literary device used in this sentence: The talking turtle developed tonsillitis.
What is alliteration?
400
Pausing after reading each paragraph and making notes in the test booklet.
What is recording your thinking?
400
A poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
400
Directions given in itallics which are not read aloud.
What are stage directions?
400
True or False. Expository text always includes dates, names of historical figures and events in history.
What is false?
500
The literary device in the following line... "The ocean danced in the moonlight"
What is personification?
500
Eliminating poor answer choices and re-reading portions of the text.
What is proving your answers?
500
A short poem that express the thoughts and feelings of the poet
What is a lyrical poem?
500
A struggle between opposing characters in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work.
What is conflict?
500
True or False. Examples of Expository Text include newspaper articles, scientific texts and fables.
What is false?
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