English 2 STAAR Exam with Complete
Solutions
1st person point of view - ANS-point of view in which the author is the main character,
uses "I"
2nd person point of view - ANS-used in tutorials, "you"
3rd person limited - ANS-a third person view in which the audience is not subjective to
thoughts and feeling of all characters
3rd person omniscient - ANS-a third person view in which the audience IS subjective to
thoughts and feeling of all characters
allegory - ANS-a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in
terms of characters, figures and events
denotative - ANS-dictionary definition of a word
drawing conclusions - ANS-making conclusions based off previously given evidence
Editing - ANS-Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling
exposition - ANS-intro to the story: find out about characters, setting, events
falling action - ANS-where the tension and excitement in a story is going down, followed
by the resolution
figurative language - ANS-simile, metaphor, hyperbole, oxymoron, personification,
allusion, idiom, onomatopoeia etc
flashback - ANS-an interruption in a story that takes the character back to a time that
happened before the story's current setting, provides background, foreshadowing, or
context clues
foreshadowing - ANS-hinting at what will happen next in a story
hook - ANS-1st sentence in an essay used to grab reader's attention. can be an
anecdote, startling fact, or quote
