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English 1 STAAR Review Exam questions with Answers (Key terms for English I and II STAAR)
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English 1 STAAR Review Exam questions withAnswers (Key terms for English I and II STAAR)
setting - - when and where the story takes place
- dialogue - - a conversation between two people
- narrator - - in a narrative, the person telling the story
- protagonist - - the main character in a literary work
- antagonist - - A character or force in conflict with the main character
- conflict - - a struggle between two opposing forces
- inference - - a logical guess based on evidence or reasoning
- theme - - the universal message of a story
- point of view - - the perspective from which the story is told
- first person - - a character narrates the story with I-me-my-mine in his or
her speech
- third-person omniscient - - writer is not in the story but knows and
decribes all the character's thoughts and ideas
- third-person limited - - The narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind
of one of the characters.
- symbolism - - the practice of using a person, thing, or object to represent
something else
- tone - - The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story,
toward a character, or toward the audience (the readers).
- mood - - the overall feeling of a story
- figurative language - - language that uses words or expressions with a
meaning that is different from the literal interpretation
- simile - - a sentence that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as"
- metaphor - - a comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
, - personification - - giving human traits to non-living things
- foreshadowing - - when an author mentions or hints at something that will
happen later in the story
- flashback - - when an author refers back to something that already took
place in the story
- audience - - who the author is trying to persuade
- argument - - a reasoned defense of a position or claim
- evidence - - facts, reasons, data, or opinions to support a claim
- repetition - - the repeated use of the same word or phrase, usually for
emphasis
- parallelism - - repeated use of the same sentence structure, usually to
show two topics are of equal importance
- allusion - - a reference to a well-known person, place, or event
- analogy - - a point by point comparison of two subjects
- aside - - an actor turns and speaks directly to the audience
- soliloquy - - a long speech in which a character speaks at length to only
himself or herself
- character foil - - a character that has traits that are exactly the opposite of
the protagonist's
- chronological order - - presents information in sequence or in the order in
which it happens
- cause and effect - - shows what happens and why it happens
- compare and contrast - - shows similarities and differences between two
or more things
- problem and solution - - presents a problem and its solution(s)
- rhyme - - the repetition of similar sounds
- alliteration - - the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of
words
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