Reading STAAR Review

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What is summarizing?

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Briefly retelling the main ideas of a piece of writing in your own words.

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What gives non-human things human characteristics?

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Personification.

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What is an excerpt?

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A piece of a larger writing.

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What is dialogue in a story?

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Conversation between characters, usually includes quotation marks.

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What is sensory language?

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Language that describes how something smells, looks, sounds, feels, or tastes.

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What is a primary source?

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An original document or firsthand account.

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What is a secondary source?

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A document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere.

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What is alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.