8th ELA STAAR Review Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The opposite viewpoint of a claim.
  2. 8. A response that disproves the counterargument.
  3. 9. How the conflict is solved at the end of the story.
  4. 10. The sequence of events in a story.
  5. 12. A scene that occurs earlier than the present action.
  6. 13. A statement that can be argued and supported with evidence.
  7. 15. When the outcome is different from what is expected.
  8. 17. A struggle between opposing forces.
  9. 19. Facts, quotes, or details that support a claim.
  10. 20. The author's attitude toward the subject.
Down
  1. 1. The feeling a reader gets from a text.
  2. 2. Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
  3. 4. Hints about what will happen later in the story.
  4. 5. A comparison that says one thing is another.
  5. 6. Written conversation between characters.
  6. 7. The time and place of a story.
  7. 11. The central message or lesson of a text.
  8. 14. A comparison using “like” or “as.”
  9. 16. An extreme exaggeration.
  10. 17. The turning point or moment of highest tension.
  11. 18. The main argument or controlling idea of a text.