Staar Reading

What is alliteration?

• Rhyme

• Repetition of END sounds

• Repetition of MIDDLE sounds

• Repetition of BEGINNING sounds

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• Bumbling, babbling band of baboons.

• Clarissa can't do that.

• Brittany walked her dog outside.

• Darryl doesn't appreciate liars.

Which of the following is an example of ONOMOTOPOEIA?

• Cecilia is as hungry as a wolf!

• "BEEP!" went the alarm clock.

• "Awww that's not fair!!!"

What is a claim?

• The argument the writer is making and trying to prove.

• The lesson the writer wants you to learn.

• The conflict the writer introduced at the beginning.

A poem's paragraph is called a...

• Couplet

• Quartet

• Stanza

If the narrator tells the story but is not a character in the story themselves, the story is being told from this POINT OF VIEW.

• 1st Person

• 3rd Person

What is a narrator?

• An antagonist

• A protagonist

• A villian

• The person TELLING THE STORY

A kid is gone from class for 13 minutes. When he or she returns, the teacher says, "I didn't think I'd ever see you again!" What type of figurative language is this?

• Onomatopoeia (word that sounds like what it describes)

• Simile (comparison between two things using like or as)

• Hyperbole (extreme exaggeration)

A comparison that states that something is something else.

"My desire to succeed is a fire you could never put out."

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Imagery

A comparison describes a nonliving thing as having human qualities.

"The copy machine belched and burped, but none of my papers came out."

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Simile

• Personification