STAAR Vocab Quiz

Effect or impact on the actions, behavior, or opinions of others

• Theme

• Contribute

• Influence

• Thesis

Especially important! Deserves special attention.

• Emphasize

• Setting

• Infer

• Reveal

To communicate or to make known

• Claim

• Audience

• Convey

• Irony

A selected piece from a book, document, article, poem etc.

• Excerpt

• Tone

• Arguement

• Plot

When the specific examples that follow it must be considered

• Organizational Pattern

• Include

• Key Idea

• Reveal

An indication (hint or clue) that something will happen later in the story line. Its helps create suspense...

• Motivation

• Infer

• Foreshadow

• Flashback

To support

• Contribute

• Influence

• Thesis

• Predict

Reveals thoughts or feelings

• Convey

• Include

• Expresses

• Argument

Retell the story in your own words. (Who, What, When, Where, Why)

• Key Idea

• Contribute

• Plot

• Summary

Uses figures of speech (such as similes, metaphors and clichés) to suggest new pictures to create stronger effects

• Convey

• Figurative Language

• Summary

• Tone