STAAR Grade 7 Reading: Literature, List 2

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  1. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  2. capitalization
    the use of uppercase letters
  3. descriptive
    serving to inform
  4. dialogue
    the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
  5. drama
    the literary genre of works intended for the theater
  6. figurative
    not literal
  7. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  8. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  9. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  10. mood
    the prevailing psychological state
  11. voice
    the distinctive way a writer uses language to express ideas
  12. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  13. punctuation
    the use of marks to clarify meaning of written material
  14. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  15. rhyme
    correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines
  16. rhythm
    alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech
  17. sensory
    involving or derived from the senses
  18. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  19. speaker
    the narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)
  20. stage direction
    instruction or description written in the script of a play
  21. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
Created on Thu Aug 26 15:09:02 EDT 2021 (updated Mon Sep 27 09:30:38 EDT 2021)

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