4th Grade STAAR Reading Vocab
Review Exam – Questions and
answers
setting - - where and when the story takes place
- conflict - - the problem in the story
- resolution - - finding a solution to a problem
- main idea - - what a piece of writing is mainly about
- theme - - the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into
life
- summary - - brief statement of the main events of a story
- chronological order - - in the time order in which events happened
- persuasive - - used to convice the reader of the writer's point of view
- procedural - - writing that tells how to do something (like a recipe)
- autobiography - - the story of a person's life written by that person in first
person point of view
- point of view - - the perspective from which a story is told
- first person point of view - - told from the viewpoint of one of the
characters using the pronouns "I" and We"
- alliteration - - the repetition of consonant SOUNDS at the beginning of
words. Example: Sally sells seashells by the sea shore.
- personification - - giving human qualities to non-human things. Example:
The sun smiled down on me.
- simile - - comparison using like or as. Example: The car was as cold as ice.
- idiom - - an expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning
of the individual words. Example: It's raining cats and dogs.
- convey - - To communicate or express
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