STAAR Review Terms

What is Rising Action?

• What water boils to the top

• The series of events that create suspense and interest in a story

• As the plot winds down and the suspense lessens, and events start to fall into place

• The beginning where the setting, characters and central conflict are introduced

What is Climax

• A pop band from the 80's

• The part in which the plot's suspense reaches its peak, the turning point of the story

• The series of events that create suspense and interest

• The way the characters solve the problem

Describing saying one thing has the qualities of another thing, without using like or as

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

Other words or information in a passage that help the reader understand the meaning of an unknown word

• vocabulary word

• context clues

• hyperbole

What vocabulary word means something that proves or disproves something; proof

• temerity

• dogmatic

• evidence

• extraneous

Details or evidence- such as facts, examples, or notes- that supports the author's ideas

• supporting detail

• main idea

• climax

Excessive exaggeration, making a big deal out of something

• climax

• hyperbole

• personification

A struggle or problem that sets a story in motion.

• climax

• conflict

• plot

The turning point in the plot of the story, sometimes described as the most exciting part of the story.

• climax

• conflict

• rising action

Language that is not meant to be taken literally

• plot

• refrain

• figurative language