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STAAR Words
Terms I need to know for STAAR
Question | Answer |
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Italicized | Designating or pertaining to a style of printing types in which the letters usually slope to the right, patterned upon a compact manuscript hand, and used for emphasis, to separate different kinds of information |
Assumption | Something taken for granted |
Conclude | To bring to an end; finish; terminate |
Dialogue | The conversation between characters in a novel, drama , etc. |
Excerpt | To take or select (a passage) From a book, film, or the like; extract |
Playwright | a writer of a play; dramatastic |
Protagonist | The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama of other literary work |
Antagonist | A person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another' opponent; adversary |
Symbolic Imagery | is imagery that is not descriptive of a scene, but is intended to express |
References | an act of instance of referring |
Dramatic Irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audiance but not grasped by the character in the play |
Objective Point Of View | The writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue |
Figurative Language | when you describe something and compare it with something else |