Figurative Language
Poetry
Drama
Non-Fiction/Fiction
STAAR Strategies
100
The manner in which an author expresses word usage in a piece of literature...
A. Personification
B. Oxymoron
C. Diction
C. Diction
100
Repetition of similar vowel sounds. Ex: She reads ten times.
A. Alliteration
B. Paradox
C. Assonance
C. Assonance.
100
A serious play or drama typically dealing with the problems of a central character, leading to an unhappy or disastrous ending.
Ex: Romeo and Juliet
A. Tragedy
B. Soap Opera
C. Cartoon
A. Tragedy
100
The use of a person, place, thing or event that stands for itself and represents some other meaning, as well.
Ex: The American flag or a white dove.
A. Symbolism
B. Personification
C. Allusion
A. Symbolism
100
The Strategy known as ABE can be defined as meaning? It is incorporated in what type of STAAR writing?
A. Answer, Back it Up, Explain. 10 line short answer prompts.
B. Answer, Borrow, Enhance. 26 line essays.
A. Answer, Back it up, Explain. 10 line short answer prompts.
200
A statement that is contradicting. Ex: It was raining outside, but I could still see a glare of the sun.
A. Oxymoron
B. Allusion
C. Paradox
A. paradox
200
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.
A. quatrain
B. Couplet
C. Iambic
B. Couplet
200
Has the potential for greatness, but is doomed to fail. A character that is trapped in a situation that he cannot win. Usually his/her tragic flaw leads to failure.
Ex: Romeo's love for Juliet causes his tragic death.
A. Minor Character
B. Tragic Hero
C. Round Character
B. Tragic Hero
200
Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses. Look, feel, sound, taste, and smell.
Ex: The sick sweet smell of the red roses was all I could remember.
A. Imagery
B. Diction
C. Personification
A. Imagery
200
What basic structure should your expository essays, which are 26 lines long, incorporate...
Introduction, 2-3 Body Paragraphs, and Closing
300
The dictionary meaning of a word...
A. Denotation
B. Term
C. Connotation
A. Denotation
300
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.
A. paragraph
B. Stanza
C. Refrain
B. Stanza
300
Instructions written in a play that indicate actions, movements, and emotions an actor should be expressing throughout. Usually in brackets.
Ex: [Sandra is looking at Tom. She is wearing a brown hat, and is holding Tom's hand. Both are conversing in a park.]
Sandra: Thanks for the wonderful suprise.
Tom: [smiles] It is because I love you darling.
A. Dialogue
B. Stage Directions
C. Satire
B. Stage Directions
300
The central message or meaning that the author tries to convey in a piece of literature that relates to everyday life or human experiences.
Ex: Love conquers all
A. Thesis
B. Theme
C. Allusion
B. Theme
300
Which of the following is graded for grammar and spelling?
A. Essays
B. Short Answers
B. Short Answers
400
The set of ideas or emotions that are added to a word. It is not the dictionary meaning. EX: When you say that a someone walking down the hall is HOT.
A. Imagery
B. Connotation
C. Inference
B. Connotation
400
Rhyming words that are at the end of their respective lines. What we typically think of as a normal rhyme in a poem.
A. End Rhyme
B. Internal Rhyme
C. Close Rhyme
A. End Rhyme
400
A play that makes fun of something or someone. It's part of the Genre of comedy.
Ex: movies like Scream, and Scary Movie.
A. Laughing.
B. Criticism
C. Satire.
C. Satire
400
The action or sequence of events in a story. Usually contains 5 basic elements: Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
A. Non-linear story
B. Plot Structure
C. Figurative Language
B. Plot Structure
400
What is the meaning of infer or inference?
A. Summarizing
B. Drawing conclusions, a logical guess, what you can tell from a piece of literature
C. Meaning of the story
B. Drawing conclusions, a logical guess, what you can tell from a piece of literature.
500
A technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story.
A. Mood
B. Flashback
C. Foreshadowing
C. Foreshadowing
500
A poetic device in which the first letter of words in succession are the same.
Ex: Now I’m the model of a modern major general
The venerated Virginian veteran whose men are all
A. Personification
B. Consonance
C. Alliteration
C. Alliteration
500
A term when a character speaks aloud to another character. Often characterized by fragmented, clipped sentences.
A. Aside
B. Soliloquy
C. Dialogue
C. Dialogue
500
The terms that refers to the language that conveys ideas by saying the opposite. An example of this term is Sarcasm.
Ex: Melissa is 20 minutes late to school, but Frank replies to her, " Melissa you came in so early today to class."
A. Irony
B. Mood
C. Tone
A. Irony
500
What do the words substantiated opinion and unsubstantiated opinion mean?
A. Fact/Opinion
B. Can be proven/Cannot be proven
C. Compare/ Contrast
B.Can be proven/Cannot be proven
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