STAAR Test English

What sound device has initial non-vowel sounds repeating at the beginning of words? Ex. Sally sells seashells at the sea shore.

• Alliteration
• Consonance
• Assonance
• Onomatopoeia

Which poem has virtually no rules?

• Free Verse
• Haiku
• Concrete
• Narrative

Which type of poem involves a hero? Think Odyssey.

• Narrative
• Epic
• Sonnet
• Haiku

When a character gives a speech to other characters on a stage it is called...

• a soliloquy
• a monologue
• an aside
• a rant

What do you need to make an inference?

• Candy
• Evidence
• Themes
• Characters

What is the use of an everyday thing to stand for something more meaningful?

• alliteration
• personification
• symbolism
• hyperbole

The comparison of two unlike things.....

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

The comparison of two unlike things using like or as......

• metaphor
• simile
• alliteration
• personification

When you give human qualities or character to animals or inanimate objects it is called?

• symbolism
• alliteration
• hyperbole
• personification

The point of view where the narrator uses I, we, us is called.......

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person
• point of view