6th Grade STAAR Reading Vocabulary Review
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Where and when the story takes place.
setting
The problem in the story.
conflict
Finding a solution to a problem.
resolution
What a piece of writing is mainly about.
main idea
The central idea or message of a work.
theme
To shorten (3-5 sentences) and tell the beginning, middle, and end of a passage.
summary
In the time order in which events happened.
chronological order
Used to convince the reader of the writer's point of view.
persuasive
Writing that tells how to do something.
procedural
A fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or the causes of natural phenomena.
myth
A beginning or coming into being.
origin
The story of a person's life written by that person in first person point of view.
autobiography
The perspective from which a story is told.
point of view
Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns 'I' and 'We'.
first person point of view
The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character.
third person limited point of view
Told by an all-knowing narrator from outside the story who reveals what every character thinks and feels.
third person omniscient point of view
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
alliteration
Giving human qualities to non-human things.
personification
A comparison using like or as.
simile
idiom
An expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words.
To communicate or express.
convey
When a portion of the story goes back in time.
flashback
The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot.
foreshadow
To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented.
inference/infer
To demonstrate that something is right; to defend with reasons.
justify
The various methods of communicating information.
media
A listing of words with synonyms and antonyms.
thesaurus
Clues in surrounding text that help the reader determine the meaning of an unknown word.
context clues
A division or type of literature.
genre
A conversation between two persons.
dialogue
Small text found near a picture that provides important information about the picture.
captions
Poetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme.
free verse
Instructions for actors and stage crew, usually set in italics.
stage directions
A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
fiction
Writing that tells about real-life, people, places, things, ideas, or events.
nonfiction
Fiction that involves an event in history.
historical fiction
A story written to be performed by actors; a play.
drama
The use of words that represent sounds.
onomatopoeia
The pattern of rhyme in a poem (ex. ABAB).
rhyme scheme
When two words rhyme in the same line of poetry.
internal rhyme
To disagree; to say the opposite.
contradict
exaggerate
To say that something is larger or greater than it really is.
The reason why something happens.
cause
The person who is telling the story.
narrator
Shows how two things are alike or different.
comparison
The part of a story that explains the background and setting.
exposition
The central part of a story during which various problems arise.
rising action
The turning point in the action of a story.
climax
The part of a story which follows the climax.
falling action
The ending or final outcome of a story.
resolution
Combining several pieces of information to make an inference.
drawing conclusions
Text that informs or instructs the reader.
expository text
Language that means more than what it says on the surface.
figurative language
The events that make up a story.
plot
To make a brief statement of the main events of a story.
summarize
To make known.
convey
informal
Casual.
When the narrator only knows what the characters do and say.
third person objective point of view
The reason an author writes the text.
author's purpose
The reason the character says or does something.
motivation
Something funny.
comical
Who the piece of text was originally written for.
audience
A conversation between characters set off by quotation marks.
dialogue
compassionate
A character trait that describes someone who has sympathy for others.
arrogant
A character trait that describes someone who thinks they're better than others.
Similar to a paragraph but in a poem.
stanza
Similar to a sentence but in a poem.
line
Where information comes from.
source
The theme or central idea of a work.
message
Qualities that characters possess.
character traits
Reasons why characters act the way they do.
character motivation
The attitude, or feeling that the author has about the subject.
tone
The feeling or emotion the reader gets when reading a passage.
mood
A person, place, or thing that represents something beyond its literal meaning.
symbolism
The bits and pieces of information that support the main idea.
details
The way an author arranges/organizes text.
text structure
Putting a part or all of a text into your own words.
paraphrase
To find the similarities between two or more things.
compare
To find the difference between two or more things.
contrast
What happens as a result of an event or action.
effect
A statement that can be proved.
fact
A personal belief or judgement that cannot be proven.
opinion
The person that narrates the poem.
speaker
Words that have the same meaning.
synonym
Words that are opposites.
antonym
Part of a play.
act
Part of an act in a play.
scene
The use of the same words over and over.
repetition
Another name for a reading passage.
selection
Pleasing to the senses.
appeal
To stress upon something that is important.
emphasize
To tell about something with details.
describe
Two passages that are alike or connected in some way.
paired passages