STAAR Words: 50-66

What is the purpose of figurative language in a text?

• To support the main idea or theme by explaining, describing, defining, or otherwise giving information about it

• To compare two unlike things by using the words like or as

• To help a reader to visualize the characters, setting, and events from a text in a better way

• To record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis

What is a scene in the context of a play?

• The author of a play

• A division of a play or an act of a play, often changes the setting

• A website on which an individual or group of users records opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis

• Statements that support your main idea or theme by explaining, describing, defining, or otherwise giving information about it

What is a hyperbole?

• The use of words that imitate sounds

• The use of exaggeration to make a point

• A comparison that gives human characteristics to non-human things

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

Who is a playwright?

• The author of a play

• A division of a play or an act of a play, often changes the setting

• A website on which an individual or group of users records opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis

• A fictional story that uses supernatural beings

What is an idiom?

• A part of the story that goes back in time

• A phrase or expression that has its own meaning different from each individual word

• The author of a play

• A division of a play or an act of a play, often changes the setting

What are graphic features/text features?

• The author of a play

• Illustrations with text that help to clarify or explain the text (labels, captions, etc.)

• A website on which an individual or group of users records opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis

• Statements that support your main idea or theme by explaining, describing, defining, or otherwise giving information about it

What does a flashback in a story refer to?

• A special article or story in a newspaper or magazine

• A division of a play or an act of a play, often changes the setting

• When a part of the story goes back in time

• A fictional story that uses supernatural beings

What is a metaphor?

• Compares two unlike things by using the words like or as

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

• Compares two unlike things, but by saying one thing IS another

• The use of words that imitate sounds

What is a myth?

• The author of a play

• A division of a play or an act of a play, often changes the setting

• A fictional story that uses supernatural beings (gods, ancestors, or heroes) to teach a moral or explain the mysteries of the natural world

• Statements that support your main idea or theme by explaining, describing, defining, or otherwise giving information about it

What is a simile?

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words (e.g., The wind)

• A comparison that uses exaggeration to make a point

• Compares two unlike things, but by saying one thing IS another

• Compares two unlike things by using the words like or as