Test Strategies
Poetry
Hard Words
STAAR Vocab
Genre
100
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
Phrase comparing two things using "like" or "as".
What is a similie?
100
The setting of the play
What is a scene?
200
I will label each question with this on paired passage question.
What is 1, 2, or both?
200
Rhyming pattern in a stanza.
What is the rhyme scheme?
200
A saying that should not be taken literally.
What is an idiom
200
Procedural text
What is a how to?
300
Wwwwh for Non-fiction & BME for fiction.
What is the summary?
300
Definition of internal rhyme.
What is a rhyme inside the same line?
300
Words that describe what you can see, smell, hear, touch, or taste.
What are sensory words?
300
Often rhymes and expresses the author's feelings.
What is poetry?
400
The five components that make up the gist for fiction passages.
What is characters, setting, problem, solution, and themes?
400
Word or phrase that describes events or action in detail for reader.
What is figurative language?
400
Words that describe the picture
What is a caption?
400
Gives information
What is informational text?
500
The best time to bubble my answer sheet.
What is after answering a question in my test booklet?
500
Definition of foreshadowing.
What is to foresee or predict?
500
Sections of a play
What is an act?
500
Made-up story that could happen in real life.
What is realistic fiction?
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