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STAAR Vocabulary Practice

Quiz by CAMBRIA MONACO

Grade 6
ELA (2017)
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)

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  • Q1
    What is the best definition of ANTAGONIST?
    The bad guy in a story
    The person or thing that stands in the way of the main character of a story.
    The main character
    The sidekick
    30s
  • Q2
    What does AUTHOR'S PURPOSE mean?
    The personal reason why they wrote the text in the first place
    The reason why he or she wrote the text for their audience... to inform? to persuade? to entertain?
    The purpose for the author's job in the world
    30s
  • Q3
    What does EVIDENCE mean?
    Piece of evidence that does NOT support your point
    A clue
    Something copied from the text
    A piece of a text that supports your point
    30s
  • Q4
    What does ILLUSTRATE mean?
    To draw
    To make clear to an audience by allowing them to picture it in their minds
    To write
    30s
  • Q5
    What is IMAGERY?
    An image of an object
    a comparison using like or as
    when an abstract idea is represented by a concrete object
    Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses
    30s
  • Q6
    What does INDICATE mean?
    To suggest
    To explain
    To point out or show
    To describe
    30s
  • Q7
    What does MOOD mean?
    The feeling a reader gets when reading a story
    How the author feels when writing a story
    How you feel after taking a test
    30s
  • Q8
    What is ALLITERATION?
    The pattern words make when read out loud.
    The repetition of sounds at the end of words.
    The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words.
    The rhyming of words
    30s
  • Q9
    What is a FLASHBACK?
    When a character travels back in time literally.
    When a story goes to the future
    When a character simply talks about a memory
    When a story goes back in time to a memory a character once had.
    30s
  • Q10
    What is a THEME?
    The events that happen in a story
    The feeling the audience has at the end of a story.
    The main idea of the story
    The message an audience can learn about life from a text
    30s
  • Q11
    What is FORESHADOWING?
    When the character time travels to the future
    When a character's shadow is described in the story.
    When the story pauses and moves to the future so the audience can know what is going to happen
    When details of a story hint at what is going to happen in the future
    30s
  • Q12
    What is an INTERNAL CONFLICT?
    When a character struggles with an issue with a natural force of nature.
    When a character struggles with an issue with another character
    When a character struggle with an issue with a body of government or rules in society
    When a character struggles with an issue within themselves and their minds
    30s
  • Q13
    What is the definition of INFLUENCE?
    to symbolize something
    to have an effect on someone or something
    to describe something
    to characterize something
    30s
  • Q14
    What is the definition of CHARACTERIZE?
    to have an effect on someone
    to describe someone or something.
    to represent or stand for something else.
    30s
  • Q15
    What does the Statue of Liberty do?
    The Statue of Liberty SYMBOLIZES new beginnings.
    The Statue of Liberty EVALUATES new beginnings.
    The Statue of Liberty CHARACTERIZES new beginnings.
    30s

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