Poetry
Plays
Fiction
Nonfiction
You Need To Know
100
Name what you call a single line of verse in a poem.
What is line?
100
This person is not a character, but sometimes comments on the actions in a play.
What is storyteller or narrator?
100
Name the voice that the author takes to tell a story in the third person point of view.
What is narrator?
100
Identify the title that is a nonfiction book: DAVID GETS IN TROUBLE--or--I SURVIVED THE SHARK ATTACKS OF 1916--or--HEALTHY KIDS
What is HEALTHY KIDS?
100
True or False: It is okay to skip over tables and graphs in a story.
What is False?
200
Identify the type of poem. "This Is Just To Say" by William Carlos Williams-- I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
What is free verse?
200
An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting
What are stage directions?
200
Name the author's purpose for writing the fictional novel DIARY OF A WIMPY KID.
What is entertainment?
200
You should use these titles to help you discover the main idea of a section in the story.
What are subtitles?
200
Identify the outline you should use for summary.
What is Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then?
300
Besides rhythm, identify the type of poem. Hey! diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.
What is rhyme?
300
Name where you would find the setting of a play?
What is the beginning of a scene?
300
Name the point of view when a character in the story narrates everything happening in the story.
What is first person?
300
Sometimes used instead of illustrations, authors use these images to give additional information about the topic.
What are pictures?
300
If you cannot use a dictionary, you should do this to understand the meaning of a word or if you are asked about a multiple meaning word.
What is reread the sentence, the sentence before and after or reread the paragraph of the story?
400
Besides rhythm and rhyme, identify the poem. "The Star" by Jane Taylor-- Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky. When the blazing sun is gone, When he nothing shines upon, Then you show your little light, Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. Then the traveller in the dark Thanks you for your tiny spark; He could not see which way to go, If you did not twinkle so. In the dark blue sky you keep, And often through my curtains peep, For you never shut your eye 'Till the sun is in the sky. As your bright and tiny spark Lights the traveller in the dark, Though I know not what you are, Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
What is repetition?
400
This is the name of a person who writes a play.
What is a playwright?
400
True or False: You need to understand how the characters think.
What is TRUE?
400
This author's purpose is most likely the reason the book WEIRD SEA CREATURES was written.
What is inform?
400
You should always read this information found underneath a picture or illustration.
What is a caption?
500
This type of poem does NOT have a rhyming pattern.
What is free verse?
500
Besides stage directions, these important details help you understand how a character should express their lines. For example CARL: Don't go in there!
What is punctuation?
500
This word means a series of events in a story.
What is plot?
500
True or False: Your STAAR Writing test should be a nonfiction narrative and expository essay.
What is TRUE?
500
If a question shows you sentences in italics (slanted), you should know this.
What is the sentences in italics are always the exact sentences from the story?
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