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STAAR: Fiction Vocabulary

Quiz by Shaila Emurla

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  • Q1
    A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters (Example: The Tortoise and the Hare)
    Fable
    30s
  • Q2
    A story that is usually passed down orally and becomes part of a community's tradition (Example: The Little Red Riding Hood)
    Folktale
    30s
  • Q3
    a fictional tale, marked by fantasy and magic, often appealing to the imagination (Example: Cinderella)
    fairy tale
    30s
  • Q4
    a narrative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements (The Legend of the Poinsettia)
    legend
    30s
  • Q5
    A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society. (Percy Jackson)
    myth
    30s
  • Q6
    an outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable (Example: Thunder Rose)
    tall tale
    30s
  • Q7
    The big idea or what the author is trying to tell the reader.
    message
    30s
  • Q8
    Central idea of a work of literature
    Theme
    30s
  • Q9
    A struggle between opposing forces
    Conflict
    30s
  • Q10
    Sequence of events in a story
    Plot
    30s
  • Q11
    the informal exchange of ideas by spoken words
    conversation
    30s
  • Q12
    things that happen in a story
    events
    30s
  • Q13
    the person who tells the story
    Narrator
    30s
  • Q14
    narrator is a character in the story "I"
    First Peron Point of View
    30s
  • Q15
    someone on the outside is looking in and telling the story as he/she see it unfold.
    third person point of view
    30s

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