STAAR TEKS Review

"Mr. C, you haven't taken us to the library in 400 years!"

• Hyperbole
• Hyber-pole
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile 

Which is NOT a type of figurative language?

• Simile
• ONAWHITEBUS
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

The wind whispered my name.

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Personification

Little Pig number one and Little Pig number two both have their houses blown down.

• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action

It was April, 1491. Workers toiled at a busy shipyard on the Portuguese coast.

• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action

Why would the author chose a first person narrator?

• For a better view of events.
• Limited narrator
• Omniscient narrator
• So the reader can tell what the character thinks and feels.

Over / Under / Through / Above

• Prepositions!
• Verbs!
• Adverbs!
• Adjectives!

Box / Cheese / Love / Grandparents

• verbs
• pronouns
• nouns
• adverbs

Red / Perfect / Clean / Bright

• Adverbs
• Verbs
• Nouns
• Adjectives

James Bonham

• A great teacher
• Invented modern math
• Died at the Alamo
• Discovered Texas