RLA STAAR Vocabulary

antonym

• Words with composite meanings.

• Words with opposite meanings.

• Words with duplicate meanings.

• Words with same meanings.

contrast

• to show

• to make known

• show differences

• show similarities

context clues

• Cheating off your friends.

• Answers given by the teacher.

• Clues that help events make sense.

• Hints that help a reader understand a difficult word.

exposition

• The ending of the story.

• the author of the story

• Characters, setting, and main conflict are introduced.

• The turning point of the story.

hyperbole

• Comparison using like or as.

• Giving human characteristics to non human things.

• Exaggeration to make a point.

• Comparison not using like or as.

inference/infer

• Answering all of the questions.

• Reading the story twice.

• Using prior knowledge and evidence to draw conclusions.

• Creating facts from your brain.

  
  

mood

• A moral or lesson.

• A phrase not to be taken literally.

• A topic in the story.

• The feeling created by a literary work or passage.

personification

• A comparison using like or as.

• An object, animal, or idea is given human qualities.

• Extreme exaggeration.

• A comparison not using like or as.

prefix

• A word that sounds the same.

• What the word means on the street/slang

• The meaning of the word.

• One or more letters added to the beginning of a root word.

A source must be _________ to credible (believable).

• current

• relevant

• accurate

• all of the answer choices