4th Grade STAAR Vocabulary

What is a brief statement of the main events of a story. It has to have the BME?

• Main Idea
• Sequence
• Summary
• Chronological Order

What is a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as?

• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

What is the central idea or message of a work?

• Theme
• Climax
• Main Idea
• Summary

What is a type of literature?

• Genre
• first person point of view
• text features
• plot

When and where the story takes place is called?

• main idea
• setting
• climax
• stanza

What are clues in the surrounding text that help the reader determine the meanming of a work?

• infer
• author's purpose
• context clues
• procedural

What is the story of a person's life written by that person in first person point of view ?

• biography
• autobiography
• fiction
• point of view

What is the perspective from which the story is told?

• dialogue
• narrator
• climax
• point of view

The sequence of events that make up a story are called?

• plot
• sequence
• main idea
• fiction

What is the problem in a story?

• climax
• resolution
• conflict
• simile