STAAR Academic Vocabulary Test

Which term refers to the perspective from which a story is told?

• conflict

• theme

• point of view

• mood

Which term describes an important or central idea in a text?

• key idea

• resolution

• stanza

• emphasize

What do we call the emotional atmosphere or feeling that a text produces for the reader?

• conflict

• mood

• dialogue

• simile

Which term describes the main problem that drives the plot in a story?

• conflict

• rising action

• key idea

• personification

Which term identifies the universal message, lesson or moral of a text?

• theme

• argument

• simile

• speaker

Which term means giving human traits to nonhuman objects, animals, or ideas?

• imagery

• personification

• emphasize

• mood

Which term is a comparison using “like” or “as”?

• infer

• simile

• sensory language

• conflict

Which term describes language that appeals to the senses and creates vivid mental pictures?

• stanza

• theme

• imagery

• argument

Which term refers to a group of lines in a poem?

• stanza

• dialogue

• argument

• point of view

In a poem, who or what is the voice that “talks” to the reader?

• speaker

• conflict

• resolution

• simile