STAAR Reading Test Terms

A story that is not true or is made up

• non fiction
•  fiction 
• biography
• autobiography

Where and when the story takes place (time day, time of year, what year, weather, physical location, etc.)

• location
• plot
• setting
• time

Sequence of events in a story

• plot
• story
• exposition
• climax

the introduction of the characters, setting, and basic situation

• beginning
• exposition
• conflict
• climax

events that increase tension about the conflict. the story starts getting good

• exposition
• rising action
• falling action 
• resolution 

point of greatest tension in the story

• conflict
• resolution
• climax
• falling action 

events that follow the climax and reduce tension

• falling action
• resolution
• exposition
• climax

the final outcome of the story

• exposition
• resolution
• climax
• conflict 

the perspective from the which the story is told

• narrator
• speaker
• point of view 

the person telling the story is a character inside the story. (Uses pronouns such as I, me, my, we and us.)

• 1st person
• 2nd person 
• 3rd person