soliloquywhen acharacter in adramatic workspeaks directlyto the audiencesemi-colonpunctuationthat dividesindependentclausesimagerycreating apicturewithwordsThepronoun"I"a wordthat isalwayscapitalizedpersonificationgiving humanqualities tosomethingthat is nothumantruisma statementthat manywill agreewithconnotationemotionalconnectionto a wordcolonpunctuationthat statesa list isfollowing3rd personomniscientthe narratorreveals thethoughts andfeelings ofmore than onecharactertransitionswords orphrases thatconnectsentences orparagraphsthemea messagethat theauthorreveals3rdpersonlimitedthe narratorreveals thethoughts andfeelings ofone characterfragmenta group of wordswith a subjectand verb but itdoesn't expressa completethoughtdictionwordchoicethesisThe sentencein an essay thatstates what thewhole passageis about.anecdoteapersonalstoryhomonyma word thatsounds thesame but isspelleddifferentlycomplexsentencea dependent+ anindependentclauseMetaphoran unusualcomparisonwithout usinglike or asdramaticironyThe audienceknows what ishappening, butthe characterdoesn'tquotationa directstatementfrom apassagesatirea way of writingabout a flaw orfailure insociety byexaggerating itto absurdity.moodrefers to theemotionsthat a textevokes fromthe readerA.P.E.+Tanswer thequestion;provide textevidence;explain it andadd a truismcounterargumentanopposingside of anissueoxymorona figure ofspeech withopposingmeanings likejumbo shrimpAllusionIndirectreference toanother famousbook,movie, orhistorical eventtoneTheauthor'sattitudemotifan object, image,sound, or phrasethat is repeatedthroughout a storyto point toward thestory's largerthemesoliloquywhen acharacter in adramatic workspeaks directlyto the audiencesemi-colonpunctuationthat dividesindependentclausesimagerycreating apicturewithwordsThepronoun"I"a wordthat isalwayscapitalizedpersonificationgiving humanqualities tosomethingthat is nothumantruisma statementthat manywill agreewithconnotationemotionalconnectionto a wordcolonpunctuationthat statesa list isfollowing3rd personomniscientthe narratorreveals thethoughts andfeelings ofmore than onecharactertransitionswords orphrases thatconnectsentences orparagraphsthemea messagethat theauthorreveals3rdpersonlimitedthe narratorreveals thethoughts andfeelings ofone characterfragmenta group of wordswith a subjectand verb but itdoesn't expressa completethoughtdictionwordchoicethesisThe sentencein an essay thatstates what thewhole passageis about.anecdoteapersonalstoryhomonyma word thatsounds thesame but isspelleddifferentlycomplexsentencea dependent+ anindependentclauseMetaphoran unusualcomparisonwithout usinglike or asdramaticironyThe audienceknows what ishappening, butthe characterdoesn'tquotationa directstatementfrom apassagesatirea way of writingabout a flaw orfailure insociety byexaggerating itto absurdity.moodrefers to theemotionsthat a textevokes fromthe readerA.P.E.+Tanswer thequestion;provide textevidence;explain it andadd a truismcounterargumentanopposingside of anissueoxymorona figure ofspeech withopposingmeanings likejumbo shrimpAllusionIndirectreference toanother famousbook,movie, orhistorical eventtoneTheauthor'sattitudemotifan object, image,sound, or phrasethat is repeatedthroughout a storyto point toward thestory's largertheme

Academic Terms for STAAR - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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