Literary Terms
The feelings you as the reader get about the text
What is mood?
Figurative language that compares two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Fix the 2 mistakes in the following sentence:
My Niece is getting married next week in the Bahamas, unfortunately, we cannot afford to go.
What is:
Ny niece is getting married next week in the Bahamas; unfortunately, we cannot afford to go.
The second "step" in plot sequence that leads to the climax of a story. This introduces the conflict.
What is the rising action?
The thesis statement has these 2 things in it.
What is your claim plus your 2 reasons?
The two types of essays you may be asked to write on the STAAR test
What is informative and persuasive?
Giving human characteristics to non-humans.
What is personification?
Fill in the blank with the correct use of the words there, their, and they're:
The boys walked ___________ dog over __________ to the store; ______________ tired of all this walking.
What is their, there, they're?
Another name for a controlling idea or the central point an author is trying to make in a paragraph.
What is the main idea?
The number of paragraphs you should have in a STAAR essay.
What is 4?
The term for using the words around a word that you may not know the meaning of in order to figure out what it means.
What is context clues?
An exaggeration that would likely never happen.
What is hyperbole?
Fix the 3 mistakes in the following sentence:
Peter has too see the picasso exhibit at the Beaumont museum of Modern Art in order to complete his report.
What is change too to to, capitalize Picasso, and capitalize Museum?
Referencing something from popular culture, literature, history, or the Bible.
What is an allusion?
When drawing your outline, these two things should be written under the word EXPLAIN.
What are 2-3 (sentences) and how/why?
The attitude the author has regarding the subject they are writing about.
What is tone?
The literary term for when an author gives animal characteristics to humans.
What is zoomorphism?
Fix the 5 mistakes in this sentence:
"How much further do we have to travel, Marci asked "before we reach shawns house?"
What is:
"How much farther do we have to travel," Marci asked, "before we reach Shawn's house?"
Giving the reader a "heads up" or hint about what is coming.
What is foreshadowing?
The format that is used for short answer questions in STAAR.
You must also state what it stands for.
2 part question
What is RACE?
What is Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain
Mostly found at the end of the passage (in the last few paragraphs) and is the author's message or lesson for the reader.
What is the theme?
A contradiction between what you think should happen in a story and what actually happens.
What is irony?
Correct the mistakes in this sentence:
You're version of Emersons essay titled Self-Reliance is different from mine, do you know why.
What are ?
Your version of Emerson's essay titled "Self-Reliance" is different from mine. Do you know why?
The words that FANBOYS stand for.
In this sentence, the purpose of the FANBOYS.
We walked to the store, and we bought a loaf of bread.
2 part question
What are: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
They are used to combine two complete sentences (this is a compound sentence).
Look at this sentence:
Although private schools likely have smaller class sizes, public schools offer many more benefits for students.
What kind of sentence is this called?
When and where would you use it?
What is a concession/refutation?
What is in the introduction of a persuasive essay?