2022 STAAR Vocab Review

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Across
  1. 1. the person who wrote the play
  2. 5. use text clues and schema to learn what the text doesn't say explicitly
  3. 7. an extreme exaggeration for emphasis
  4. 8. another word for text, story, or passage
  5. 10. turning point in a story
  6. 11. internal or external; problems
  7. 12. restating a text in your own words
  8. 14. how information of a text is organized or structured
  9. 17. paragraphs in a poem
  10. 19. another word for the central idea; what the text was mainly about
  11. 21. to add to
  12. 22. what the text says to help you know what a word means
  13. 24. point out the importance
  14. 26. the lesson the author wants the reader to learn
Down
  1. 2. to have an effect on someone or something
  2. 3. a conversation between two characters
  3. 4. an item used in a play
  4. 6. to communicate or make known
  5. 9. what you already know; background knowledge
  6. 12. to give an unliving item living characteristics
  7. 13. authors opinion on an issue; claim
  8. 15. to compare to unlike things using like or as
  9. 16. the story line (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution)
  10. 18. sentences in a poem
  11. 20. restating the most important parts with the beginning, middle, and end or main ideas of a text
  12. 23. one part of a whole play; most plays have multiple of these
  13. 25. figurative language that helps you visualize what is happening in the test