8th Grade Reading STAAR Review
Exam/100 Questions & Answers
climax - - the turning point of the story
- conclusion - - an overall decision you make after reading
- falling action - - the part of the story that ties up the loose ends and leads
to the resolution
- figurative language - - language that does not mean what it says literally
- foreshadow - - when an author gives the reader a hint that something will
happen later in the story
- flashback - - when the author interrupts the usual sequence to tell the
readers about something that happened in the past.
- inference - - a guess you make based on information you read
- main idea - - who or what the article, essay, or story is mostly about
- plot - - the sequence of events in a story
- rising action - - events that happen after the conflict but before the climax
in a story
- setting - - the time and place where a story takes place
- conflict - - the problem facing the main character or characters in a story
- analogy - - two sets of words that are related in the same way
- cause - - the reason something happens
- context clues - - information from the words and sentences around an
unfamiliar word that helps you figure out its meaning
- effect - - the result of the cause
- mood - - the way the story makes the reader feel
- resolution - - how the conflict of the story is ultimately solved
, - supporting details - - the facts, examples, or descriptions that explain or
back up the main idea of a text
- tone - - the author's attitude toward a subject as well as his or her attitude
toward the reader
- prefix - - a group of letters added to the beginning of a word that changes
the word's meaning
- author's purpose - - an author's reason for writing: to entertain, inform,
explain, or persuade
- author's point of view - - an author's opinion on a subject
- contrast - - to show how things are different
- dialogue - - words the characters say to each other
- fact - - a statement that can be proved to be true
- idiom - - an expression that means something different from what its
individual words mean
- opinion - - what someone believes or feels, cannot be proven to be true
- personification - - giving human qualities to an object or idea
- root - - the main part of a word and a clue to the word's meaning
- sequence - - the order in which information is arranged, from start to finish
- simile - - a comparison of two things using like or as
- suffix - - a group of letters added to the end of a word that changes the
word's meaning
- summary - - a shortened version of a longer work, containing the main
idea/theme of a text
- symbol - - an object, living thing, or situation that stands for or represents
an idea or feeling
- analyze - - to break it down
- infer - - read between the lines
Exam/100 Questions & Answers
climax - - the turning point of the story
- conclusion - - an overall decision you make after reading
- falling action - - the part of the story that ties up the loose ends and leads
to the resolution
- figurative language - - language that does not mean what it says literally
- foreshadow - - when an author gives the reader a hint that something will
happen later in the story
- flashback - - when the author interrupts the usual sequence to tell the
readers about something that happened in the past.
- inference - - a guess you make based on information you read
- main idea - - who or what the article, essay, or story is mostly about
- plot - - the sequence of events in a story
- rising action - - events that happen after the conflict but before the climax
in a story
- setting - - the time and place where a story takes place
- conflict - - the problem facing the main character or characters in a story
- analogy - - two sets of words that are related in the same way
- cause - - the reason something happens
- context clues - - information from the words and sentences around an
unfamiliar word that helps you figure out its meaning
- effect - - the result of the cause
- mood - - the way the story makes the reader feel
- resolution - - how the conflict of the story is ultimately solved
, - supporting details - - the facts, examples, or descriptions that explain or
back up the main idea of a text
- tone - - the author's attitude toward a subject as well as his or her attitude
toward the reader
- prefix - - a group of letters added to the beginning of a word that changes
the word's meaning
- author's purpose - - an author's reason for writing: to entertain, inform,
explain, or persuade
- author's point of view - - an author's opinion on a subject
- contrast - - to show how things are different
- dialogue - - words the characters say to each other
- fact - - a statement that can be proved to be true
- idiom - - an expression that means something different from what its
individual words mean
- opinion - - what someone believes or feels, cannot be proven to be true
- personification - - giving human qualities to an object or idea
- root - - the main part of a word and a clue to the word's meaning
- sequence - - the order in which information is arranged, from start to finish
- simile - - a comparison of two things using like or as
- suffix - - a group of letters added to the end of a word that changes the
word's meaning
- summary - - a shortened version of a longer work, containing the main
idea/theme of a text
- symbol - - an object, living thing, or situation that stands for or represents
an idea or feeling
- analyze - - to break it down
- infer - - read between the lines
