Fiction and Drama
The conflict is ended in this stage of plot.
What is the resolution?
Using like or as to compare two different things.
What is a simile?
The central argument of a passage.
What is the thesis?
The mood of a poem.
What is tone?
The amount of time allotted for the STAAR Reading test.
What is 4 hours?
The moment everything builds up to.
What is the climax?
Malice mocked me til the morning maze subsided.
What is alliteration?
The reason why the author wrote a passage. Example: To persuade readers to vote for someone.
What is author's purpose?
An example of this would be if the last line of each stanza features some of the same words.
What is repetition or refrain?
This is the number of questions that usually appear on the STAAR reading test.
What is 50?
This can be used in a play to reveal things without characters saying them.
What is stage direction?
Words and phrases used to mean something other than what they literally say.
What is figurative language?
Words in bold letters to indicate what a section of a text will be about.
What are subheadings?
The way a poem is read. Determined by length and syllables.
What is rhythm.
This is what you will be asked to do if you see two passages back to back without questions in between.
What is make connections or compare them?
The rising action is typically started when this happens.
What is the beginning of the conflict?
Sensory language appeals to these five senses.
What is sight, sound, taste, touch, smell?
An opinion is different from a fact in this way.
What is an opinion is a value statement.
The way a rhythm should be read and how the syllables should be pronounced.
What is meter?
This is what you should do as you read passages in order to understand main idea and summaries better.
What is write a few words about the main idea of each paragraph or section?
Give an example of a story having more than one conflict.
What is ...
Find the figurative language: And before I know it, the tears start streaming down my face, and for a moment I feel like I’m watching myself from outside of my body.
What is a simile?
What is synthesize?
Finish the line from Adrenaline Rush: "I realize I'm gonna make it home safe, you know?...."
This is the score a student needs to get "commended" or "advanced".
What is 90%?