STAAR Vocab Review
Quiz by Caitlyn Stovall
Grade 6
ELAR (2009)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
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- Q1What is the best definition of ANTAGONIST?The sidekickThe main characterThe person or thing that stands in the way of the main character of a story.The bad guy in a story120s6.6.A: Reading - Comprehension of Literary Text - Fiction
- Q2What does AUTHOR'S PURPOSE mean?The purpose for the author's job in the worldThe reason why he or she wrote the text for their audience... to inform? to persuade? to entertain?The personal reason why they wrote the text in the first place120s6.11.A: Reading - Comprehension of Informational Text - Persuasive Text
- Q3What does CONFLICT mean?A struggle between two forces: internal & externalA discussion between two or more charactersWhen a character never gets what he or she wants120s6.6.A: Reading - Comprehension of Literary Text - Fiction
- Q4What does CONVEY mean?to move ; to shiftto show ; to demonstrate ; to portrayTo illuminate120s6.6.A: Reading - Comprehension of Literary Text - Fiction
- Q5What does EVIDENCE mean?A cluePiece of evidence that does NOT support your pointA piece of a text that supports your pointSomething copied from the text120s6.25.B: Research - Organizing and Presenting Ideas
- Q6What does ILLUSTRATE mean?To drawTo make clear to an audience by allowing them to picture it in their mindsTo write120s6.6.A: Reading - Comprehension of Literary Text - Fiction
- Q7What is IMAGERY?when an abstract idea is represented by a concrete objecta comparison using like or asAn image of an objectWords or phrases that appeal to the five senses120s6.25.B: Research - Organizing and Presenting Ideas
- Q8What does INDICATE mean?To explainTo suggestto point out or showTo describe120s6.6.A: Reading - Comprehension of Literary Text - Fiction
- Q9What does INFERENCE mean?An educated guess based off of evidenceTo create a hypothesisSupportive text evidence120s6.25.B: Research - Organizing and Presenting Ideas
- Q10What does MOOD mean?How you feel after taking a testHow the author feels when writing a storyThe feeling a reader gets when reading a story120s6.25.B: Research - Organizing and Presenting Ideas
- Q11What is a RESOLUTION?The very end of a story.. how the story endsThe most intense part of a storyThe very beginning of a story... how the story starts120s6.6.A: Reading - Comprehension of Literary Text - Fiction
- Q12What is a SETTING?The time and place a story takes placethe message learned from the storyThe place the character was born in.120s6.6.A: Reading - Comprehension of Literary Text - Fiction
- Q13What does ILLUSTRATE mean?To make clear to an audience by allowing them to picture it in their mindsTo writeTo demonstrate or show120s6.6.A: Reading - Comprehension of Literary Text - Fiction
- Q14What is a STANZA?A group of sentences in an articleA paragraph in a novelA group of lines in poetry120s6.15.B: Writing - Literary Texts
- Q15What is ALLITERATION?The pattern words make when read out loud.The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words.The rhyming of wordsThe repetition of sounds at the end of words.120s6.15.B: Writing - Literary Texts