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English 2 STAAR Exam with Complete Solutions
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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
hyperbole - ANS-an extreme exaggeration often used for comedic effect or emphasis. ex i hug recess million times a day imagery/sensory details - ANS-descriptive parts in a text that provide the reader with feeling from the 5 senses infer/inference - ANS-an educated guess based on prior knowledge or hints in a story Main idea - ANS-the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about metaphor - ANS-a comparison between two things not using the words like or as. ex you are my sunshine mood - ANS-the feeling a reader gets from a passage onomatopoeia - ANS-words whose sounds echo their meaning. ex buzz, pow, pop, boom personification - ANS-giving human-like qualities or actions to non human things. ex the wind whispered Persuasive essay - ANS-used to call the reader to action on a specific topic plot - ANS-the events that make up a story purpose - ANS-the reason a writer produces a piece ex persuade, inform, entertain, resolution - ANS-where the conflict in the story is resolved, usually the very end Revising - ANS-Substitute, remove, move, rhyme - ANS-fat, cat, rat, bat, mat, scat, phat rising action - ANS-part in a story where the excitement grows, leading up tot he conflict simile - ANS-a comparison between two things using the words like or as. ex Catherine is as dumb as a rock summarize - ANS-if you're not smart you're honestly just dumb, probably because you are not smart summary: if you are not smart you might be dumb alliteration - ANS-peter picked a peck of pickled peppers (repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words in close proximity)