STAAR ELA Review Vocabulary

The event or decision that begins a story's problem or conflict.

• inciting incident

• setting

• character trait

• climax

The feeling or emotion the reader gets when reading a passage.

• tone

• mood

• foreshadowing

• theme

A hint about events that will happen later that builds suspense

• flashback

• mood

• foreshadowing

• setting

The attitude that the author has about the subject.

• theme

• symbolism

• mood

• tone

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

• temerity

• dogmatic

• evidence

• extraneous

to imagine or form a mental picture of

• stanza

• foreshadowing

• detect

• visualize

Comparing two unlike things by saying that one thing is the other.

• simile

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

Comparing two unlike things using the words like or as.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

An extreme exaggeration

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simle

• personification

Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• personification

• hyperbole