STAAR Fiction Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 3. The events in a story.
  2. 6. Where and when the story takes place
  3. 7. The problem of a story
  4. 11. Character Characters in the story that stay the same (they don’t learn
  5. 14. The main character in the story
  6. 16. The attitude, or feeling, that the author has about the subject.
  7. 17. from Hoot)
  8. 19. Point of greatest tension in the story, the turning point.
  9. 21. When the author pauses in the story to describe events that happened in the past.
  10. 22. The feeling or emotion the reader gets when reading a passage.
  11. 24. The introduction of the characters, setting, and basic situation.
  12. 25. The final outcome of the story.
  13. 26. The person telling the story is outside the story, but they know what most of the characters are doing, thinking, or feeling.
  14. 27. The perspective from which the story is told.
  15. 28. Events that follow the climax and reduce tension.
  16. 29. Reasons why the characters act the way they do.
  17. 31. Hint about events that will happen later that builds suspense.
  18. 32. The character(s) in conflict with the protagonist
  19. 33. When a character is in conflict with themselves and they need to make a decision about something. (ex. Roy deciding to support Mullet Fingers or follow the law)
Down
  1. 1. Is a person, place, or thing that represents something beyond its literal meaning.
  2. 2. Tells a made up story.
  3. 4. The person telling the story is outside the story, but they know what most of the characters are doing.
  4. 5. The person telling the story is a character inside the story (Uses pronouns such as I, me, my, we, and us)
  5. 8. A character in a story that we do not know much about (ex. Mom and Dad in Hoot)
  6. 9. When two characters are against each other (ex. Batman v. the Joker)
  7. 10. Qualities that define them (ex. honesty)
  8. 12. A character is struggling against an outside force, such as another character, nature, or society.
  9. 13. A character is struggling within himself or herself. The struggle is based on desires, beliefs, feelings, or needs.
  10. 15. A character in a story that we know a lot about (ex.
  11. 16. The person telling the story is outside the story, but they do not know what any of the characters are thinking.
  12. 18. When a character is in conflict with society, community (ex. Mullet Fingers v. Mother Paula's)
  13. 20. When a character is in conflict with something in nature like weather, animal, or disease (ex. Roy v. the snakes)
  14. 23. Characters in the story that make some kind of change (learn
  15. 25. Events that increase tension about the conflict.
  16. 30. The central message or lesson of the story.