STAAR Review Vocabulary

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Dialogue

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conversation between people in a literary work

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Exaggeration

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To make an overstatement or to stretch the truth.

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Third Person Point of View

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point of view that presents the events of the story from a narrator's point of view (he, she, it, they, them, their, her, his, or character's names are used)

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First Person Point of View

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A personal point of view using the "I" point of view. May also contain me, our, we, us.

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Figurative Language

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Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.

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Informational Text

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It is nonfiction, written primarily to convey factual information. (e.g., textbooks, newspapers, reports, directions, brochures, technical manuals, etc.).

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Main Idea

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is the author's central thought; the topic sentence of a paragraph.

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Mood

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The emotion created in the reader

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Onomatopoeia

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The use of words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning (ex.: hiss, pop, bang)

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Plot

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The sequence in which the author arranges events in a story. The structure often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the resolution.