Fiction
The lesson or moral of a story.
What is theme?
What the text is mostly about.
What is controlling (main) idea?
The writer of a play.
What is a poet?
Trying to get the reader to do or believe something.
What is persuasion?
The strategy we use for writing a short constructed response (SCR).
What is RACE?
The main sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
The intended audience of a text.
What is a reader?
What is a stanza?
The collection of a claim, evidence, and reasoning.
What is an argument?
The reason a writer wrote something.
What is author's purpose?
The way the narrator of a story views the events happening in it.
What is point of view?
Words or phrases around a word that help the reader figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
Words in a play that appeal to the senses and allow the reader to imagine something.
What is imagery?
An argument against another claim.
What is a counterargument?
Combining background information and text evidence to create new understanding.
What is an inference?
When characters in a story speak.
What is dialogue?
Things around the paragraphs of a text that help give you better understanding.
What are text features?
The voice, or narrator, of a poem.
What is a speaker?
A statement of belief that the author wants to persuade the reader to do or believe.
What is a claim?
Instructions for the actors on how to act.
What are stage directions?
The main character of a story.
What is a protagonist?
The way the author organizes information in a text.
What is text structure or organizational patterns?
(Either answer is correct).
Language in a poem that is not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
An explanation for why evidence supports a claim.
What is reasoning?
What you have to do to get paper for notes during the STAAR test.
What is ask?