Reading STAAR Review

The collection of scenes that form the major segments of a drama.

• Act

• Timeline

• Foreshadowing

• Prose

Letters attached to the beginning or end of a word to change its meaning.

• Character

• Affix

• Drama

• Loaded Term

The repetition of the beginning sound of a word.

• Main Idea

• Setting

• Alliteration

• Diagram

A reference to a famous event, person, or work of literature.

• Conflict

• Flowchart

• Plot

• Allusion

A word relationship that compares two dissimilar things.

• Analogy

• Compare

• Graph

• Myth

Word that means the opposite or near opposite meaning.

• Paraphrase

• Antonym

• Context Clue

• Glossary

A statement of truth or opinion stated in a concise and witty manner.

• Sequence

• Protagonist

• Aphorism

• Media

An attempt to persuade someone on a topic open for debate.

• Conflict

• Dialogue

• Figurative Language

• Argument

The reason an author wrote a passage.

• Author's Purpose

• Commonplace Assertion

• Dictionary

• Epigraph

In persuasive text, the author's attitude toward or opinion about the subject.

• Internal Conflict

• Author's Viewpoint

• Narrator

• Secondary Source