STAAR Prep 1

What is alliteration?

• the repetition of consonant SOUNDS at the beginning of words. For example, Sally sells seashells by the sea shore.

• The reason why something happens

• In the time order in which events happened

• helpful

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What are captions?

• the turning point in the action of a story- the problem is solved

• make visible

• small text found near a picture that provides important information about the picture

• where information comes from

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.K.5

What is moral?

• the person who wrote the play/drama

• A practical lesson about right and wrong

• the use of words that represent sounds

• the person who is telling the story; the speaker

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What is exaggerate?

• the use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot

• A special fact or event which can be observed and /or documented

• a conversation between two people

• to say that something is larger or greater than it really is; "to stretch the truth"

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

What are drawing conclusions?

• combining several pieces of information to make an inference

• casual

• elaborate exaggeration

• a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

What is plot?

• giving human qualities to non-human things

• a comparison or two unlike things without using like or as

• the events that make up a story

• writing that tells how to do something

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

What is drama?

• following rules or customs; often in an exact and proper way

• a story written to be performed by actors; a play

• when a portion of the story goes back in time

• a collection of word pictures that appeal to the reader

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is main idea?

• What a piece of writing is mainly about

• the various methods of communicating information

• a beginning or coming into being

• something that gets in the way of a goal

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is dialogue?

• told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and "we"

• a conversation between two people

• to show

• when two words rhyme in the same line of poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is compare and contrast?

• when and where a story takes place

• the use of words that represent sounds

• shows how 2 or more things are alike and different

• how the conflict is solved or fixed

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3