A group of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
100
The action of the story.
What is plot?
100
Can be proven with data, observations, and reliable sources,
What is a factual claim?
100
title, subheading, sidebar and bulleted list
What are text features?
100
The lake is a mirror reflecting the bright sunlight in the early morning.
What is a metaphor?
200
Is a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
What is extended metaphore?
200
The point in the story right BEFORE the falling action and resolution?
What is climax?
200
States a belief, feeling or value and cannot be proven.
What is an opinion?
200
Events are arranged in the order in which they happen. This type of organizational pattern is used in short stories, biographies, and autobiographies.
What is chronological order or sequence organizational pattern?
200
The wind whispered through the the young leaves of the pecan tree.
What is personification?
300
Many poems on the STAAR have a common theme. What are they?
What is "coming of age, being true to yourself, learning a life lesson"?
(any of these answers count!)
300
Where will the climax be in a text?
What is "near the end"?
300
You need this in order to prove an inference.
What is text evidence?
300
This pattern shows a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other.
Some transition words used in this pattern are "because, since, as a result of."
What is cause and effect?
300
His head was small and flat at the top, with huge ears, and a long beakish nose, so that it looked like a bird perched upon his spindly neck to tell which way the wind blew.
What is a simile?
400
Because I do not hope to turn again;
Because I do not hope;
Because I do not hope to turn;
Is an example of?
What is repetition?
400
Reveals the outcome of the conflict.
What is the resolution?
400
Is a statement many people assume to be true but which may or may not be so and can be debatable.
What is a commonplace assertion?
400
Often includes important details such as the main characters, the setting and main events.
What is a summary?
400
In 1970, a politician complained the news media were "nattering nabobs of negativism".
What is alliteration?
500
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What is allusion?
500
The overall message of a story that reveals something about the human experience.
What is theme?
500
A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning?
What is an inference?
500
Sometimes a text only hints at the main idea instead of telling it outright. In that case, it's the reader's job to make an...