23-24 ELA6 STAAR Vocabulary

The reason why the author wrote the story. (Think of PIE! Persuade, Inform, Entertain)

• Plot

• Text Structure

• Author's purpose

• Main Idea

how the information within a written text is organizedExamples: Cause and Effect, Chronological Order, Compare and Contrast, Problem Solution

• Author's Purpose

• Chronological Order

• Description

• Text Structure

Conversation between characters

• Dialogue

• Plot

• Simile

• Metaphor

The narrator is a character in the story. The narrator ONLY knows their own thoughts and feelings, and what they see and hear other characters do.

• Figurative Language

• First Person Point of View

• Author's Purpose

• Alliteration

The narrator is not a character in the story. They are able to know ALL the characters thoughts and feelings.

• Rising Action

• Third Person Point of View

• First Person Point of View

• Metaphor

The author gives us clues in the text to help the reader figure out what will happen later in the book.

• Simile

• Foreshadow

• Exposition

• Metaphor

Descriptive sentences that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) = vivid details

• Personification

• Imagery

• Metaphor

• Simile

The person telling the story.

• Metaphor

• Dialogue

• Narrator

• Imagery

the events that make up a story

• Plot

• Exposition

• Climax

• Theme

The introduction of a book. Characters, setting and the situation are introduced.

• Resolution

• Climax

• Exposition

• Narrator