STAAR Vocabulary Words

to attract attention to or emphasize something important

• highlight

• suggest

• demonstrate

• convey

important and meaningful

• develop

• conflict

• significant

• convey

to be an important factor in; help to cause

• describe

• contribute

• convey

• paraphrase

to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of

• suggest

• support

• describe

• demonstrate

to show or point out

• point of view

• indicate

• purpose

• attitude

having to do with seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling

• sensory

• simile

• suggest

• support

to say or show something in an indirect way

• suggest

• inference

• conclude

• purpose

to express the opposite of what is meant, often humorously

• A) irony

• B) metaphor

• C) simile

• D) hyperbole

a comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• A) metaphor

• B) simile

• C) personification

• D) alliteration

the main character in a story

• A) antagonist

• B) protagonist

• C) narrator

• D) foil