STAAR ELA

Hints given to a reader by the author which communicate a hidden or embedded message.

• Context clues

• graphic elements

• inferences

• convey

The process of taking context clues & coming to a logical conclusion based on the evidence presented.

• stage directions

• context clues

• inference

• convey

Any tool, other than the text itself, to help the reader understand the themes of a selection better. Ex. Pictures, quotes, text boxes, modified text: italics, bold, all caps...

• context clues

• graphic elements

• stage directions

  convey

• inference

How an author chooses to organize information or plot structure in a selection.

• context clues

• inference

• stage directions

• organizational pattern

The word STAAR uses to refer to any passage, poem, play, or article.

• selection

• convey

• stanza

• dialogue

To present information to the reader

• context clues

• inference

• line

• convey

To make VERY obvious to the reader

• convey

• emphasize

• stanza

• stage directions

In poetry, a sentence is called this...

• dialogue

• stanza

• poem

• line

In poetry, a group of lines much like a paragraph..

• line

• stanza

• tone

• selection

Actively spoken words in a selection; denoted by the use of "quotation marks"

• line

• text clues

• dialogue

• tone