Vocabulary 1
This is how you tell a text is written in first person point of view.
What is the use of the pronoun I in the narration?
This word means to examine two things for their similarities and differences.
What is to compare?
These are three of the words called conjunctions that are used to make compound sentences?
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so? (Any two of these.)
This is what you should do at the begining of every paragraph of your STAAR writing.
What is indent?
This is a detail from "Greyfriar's Bobby" that supports the author's statement that it's "a tale of incredible loyalty."
Answers will vary from Greyfriar's Bobby.
What is an archetype?
This word means to show.
What is convey, illustrate, portray, or reveal? (Any of these 4 words would be the correct answer.)
These are three examples of words that should be capitalized.
This is the suggested number of paragraphs for your STAAR writing.
What is four?
This is the text that supports the conclusion that eyebrows and eyelashes are important.
Answers will vary from Hair-Raising Information.
This is the pattern of rhyme in a poem.
This is a reference to history, culture, or science that is outside of the events of the work of literature.
What is allusion?
This is what you put around phrases that add information to a sentence and interrupt the flow of the sentence.
What are commas?
This is the meaning of the G in the essay format we learned for the introduction.
What is general sentence?
This is one of the research-based methods for increasing your comprehension of reading.
Answers vary.
This word refers to extra information that isn't needed in the essay.
What is extraneous?
This is to highlight, point out, or emphasize.
What is to underscore?
This is the thing you should NEVER put by itself between two complete sentences.
What is just a comma?
This is the meaning of G-S-T for the essay introduction.
What is general sentence, specific sentence (naming the text), and thesis.
This is one of the strategies for helping yourself get a STAAR quesion correct.
What is look back at the passage for evidence (or another strategy)?
This means repeated information that's not needed.
What is redundant?
These are stories told to make a point.
What is an anecdote?
This is a phrase before the main sentence that is set off with a comma.
What is an introductory phrase?
This is the acronym that tells what should be in the body paragraph plus the meaning of each letter.
What is T - topic sentence, E - evidence, and E - explanation?
This is how long you have to complete your STAAR EOC test reading and writing questions?
What is the whole school day?