English II Terms and Vocabulary STAAR Overview

What is tone?

• Author’s attitude

• • Author’s feelings

• • The atmosphere of the story

• The themes that an author talks about

What is mood?

• The atmosphere of the setting from a story

• • The tone of the main character

• The character’s feelings and attitude toward a subject

• • The author’s purpose

What is connotation?

• • The dictionary definition of a word

• • The context of a word used in the text

What is denotation?

• • The context of a word used in the text

• • The dictionary definition of a word

What is a summary?

• • The main idea of a text

• • The central idea of a text plus key details

• • The details used in a text

• • The key details in a text

How long should a summary be?

• • 1-3 sentences

• 2-11 sentences

• • 4-6 sentences

• • 5-8 sentences

What is the central idea? (Select 2 answers)

• • The main idea that a text gets across

• • The thesis

• • The details used in a text

• • The characters and plot

What is theme? (Select 3 answers)

• • The lesson

• • The moral of a story

• • The ideas that an author presents within an article

• • The plot

• • The characters

What are the components of plot (in order)?

• Exposition, resolution, climax, falling action, rising action

• Rising action, exposition, climax, falling action, resolution

• Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

• Rising action, falling action, climax, resolution, exposition

Which part of the plot encompasses most of a story?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution