STAAR Grade 6 Reading: Literature, List 2

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  1. dialogue
    the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
  2. drama
    the literary genre of works intended for the theater
  3. figurative
    not literal
  4. historical
    belonging to the past
  5. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  6. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  7. mystery
    a story about a crime presented as a novel or play or movie
  8. myth
    a traditional story serving to explain a world view
  9. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  10. realistic
    representing what is; not abstract or ideal
  11. scene
    a subdivision of an act of a play
  12. sensory
    involving or derived from the senses
  13. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  14. speaker
    the narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)
  15. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  16. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
Created on Tue Aug 17 12:59:31 EDT 2021 (updated Tue Aug 17 13:25:05 EDT 2021)

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