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 what you should do after every story during the test.
What is take a brain break?
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 one way you can tell that it's time to write the essay.
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 true statement about the online STAAR Dictionary.
What is it's always available. Or, What is you can use it to look up words you can't spell?
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 a required part of your introduction.
What is a thesis?
This is the amount of time you have for your test.
What is all day or seven hours?
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 the question that counts the most on your test.
What is the essay?