STAAR Reading Prep Part 2

All story plots follow a natural order, which is known as the elements of plot. Which answer has the elements labeled in the correct order?

• Title, introductory paragraph, body
  paragraph, and conclusion paragraph
• Resolution, climax, rising action, conflict,
  falling action, exposition
• C. Exposition, conflict, rising action, climax,
  falling action, resolution
• fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry

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CCSS.RL.6.5

Sensory language allows the reader to use their senses and paints a picture in the reader’s mind. This type of figurative language is called?

• imagery
• literary
• imagination 
• irony

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What luck, I finally have a day off from work and the weather is perfect. It is sunny and cool with a mild breeze blowing. I have been waiting for a day like this for a long time.
Make an inference for the above situation.

• It's a great time to get some house work done
• There is a good chance it is going to rain
• School will probably be cancelled
• This will be great day to do something outside.

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CCSS.RL.6.1

What is the text structure? 
An article explaining the cure for a minor burn.

• Cause/Effect 
• Comparison/Contrast
• Order/Sequence
• Problem-Solution

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CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

to arrive at a conclusion, Imply

• Infer 
• Summarize
• Claim
• Selection

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

The resolution to the conflict. 

• Consultation 
• Resolution
• Pace 
• Falling action

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CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A

The tone is a ________ or speaker's attitude toward a subject.

• reader's
• audience
• writer's

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CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RI.7.4

_______ is a struggle between opposing forces. 

• Cause
• Effect
• Conflict

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CCSS.RL.7.3

The setting is the _______ and ________ in which a narrative occurs. 

• mood, attitude
• structure, plot
• time, place

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CCSS.RL.7.3

Imagery is descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures. 

• true
• false

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RL.7.4