6th Grade STAAR Reading Vocabulary Review

What is an affix?

• A character in a story

• The highest point of tension in a storyline

• An additional element placed at the beginning or end of a root, stem, or word, to modify its meaning

• The final part of a story or play, in which the problem of the story is resolved

What is the purpose of an author's purpose?

• To account for a person's life

• To persuade, inform, or entertain

• To analyze how two texts, characters, etc. are similar and different

• To provide the setting of a story

What does "cause and effect" refer to in literature?

• The setting of a story, including background information

• The relationship between two things, where one thing makes something else happen

• The final part of a story or play

• An account of a person's life

What is a climax in a story?

• The additional element placed at the beginning or end of a word to modify its meaning

• The reason for or intent in writing

• The highest point of tension in the storyline

• The setting of a story, including background information

What is the role of a claim in a paragraph or essay?

• To provide an account of a person's life

• To analyze how two texts, characters, etc. are similar and different

• To be the central idea of a paragraph or essay, and should appear in the first sentence

• To summarize the main ideas in the last paragraph

What does it mean to compare and contrast?

• To determine the meaning of an unknown word or idea

• To analyze how two texts, characters, etc. are both similar and different

• To modify the meaning of a word by adding an element at the beginning or end

• To reach the highest point of tension in a storyline

What is the conclusion of a story or essay?

• The additional element placed at the beginning or end of a word

• The highest point of tension in the storyline

• The ending of a story or essay, which summarizes the main ideas

• The central idea of a paragraph or essay

What is context in a story?

• The relationship between two things, where one thing makes something else happen

• The reason for or intent in writing

• The setting of a story, including background information

• The highest point of tension in the storyline

What is a denouement in a story or play?

• The additional element placed at the beginning or end of a word to modify its meaning

• The reason for or intent in writing

• The highest point of tension in the storyline

• The final part of a story or play, in which the problem of the story is resolved

What are Multiple Meaning Words?

• Words that have the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings

• Words that have different spellings but the same pronunciation and meaning

• Words that have the same spelling but different pronunciation and meanings

• Words that have different spellings and meanings but the same pronunciation