This is small text found near a picture that provides important information about the picture. You should always read these, especially during the STAAR test.
What is a caption?
100
This is a story to be performed by actors, a play.
What is a drama?
100
These are people or animals who are actors in the story.
Who are characters?
100
The perspective from which a story is told is called the _______________ ____ __________.
What is point of view?
100
This is the use of clues to suggest events that will happen in the future. The Stranger used this.
What is foreshadowing?
200
These are drawings or photographs that help explain the text.
What are illustrations?
200
This is poetry that does not contain regular patters of rhythm or rhyme.
What is free verse?
200
This is the central idea or message of a work.
What is the theme?
200
This point of view is from one of the characters. It uses the pronouns "I" and "We".
What is first person point of view?
200
This occurs when a portion of the story goes back in time.
What is flashback?
300
This is a drawing that shows or explains something. It usually includes captions and/or labels.
What is a diagram?
300
This occurs when two words rhyme in the same line of poetry.
What is internal rhyme?
300
This is the problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
300
This point of view is usually found in directions and instructions. It uses the word "you".
What is second person point of view?
300
This is a practical lesson about right and wrong.
What is a moral?
400
This is a conversation between two people. Sometimes it is noted by quotation marks.
What is dialogue?
400
A drama often has a person who tells the story. This person is called a ______________.
What is a narrator?
400
This is when and where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
400
This point of view is where the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character. It uses the words "he, she, and it".
What is third person limited point of view?
400
This is a word that means the beginning or coming into being. (Hint: It's on the right side of the page.)
What is origin?
500
These are instructions for actors and the stage crew, usually set in italics.
Ex. (The fiddler is on the roof bemoaning his fate when his daughter steps out of the house.)
What are stage directions?
500
The pattern of rhyme in a poem is called the _______________ _______________.
What is the rhyme scheme?
500
This is the solution to the conflict or problem.
What is the resolution?
500
This point of view is from the perspective of an all-knowing narrator from outside the story who reveals what every character thinks and feels.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
500
This is a book listing words with their synonyms and antonyms.