STAAR Grade 8 Reading: Literature, List 2

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  1. descriptive
    serving to inform
  2. figurative
    not literal
  3. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  4. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  5. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  6. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  7. sensory
    involving or derived from the senses
  8. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  9. speaker
    the narrative voice of a poem (as distinct from the poet)
  10. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  11. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  12. foreshadow
    indicate by signs
  13. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  14. lyric
    a short poem of songlike quality
  15. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  16. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
Created on Fri Sep 24 14:51:27 EDT 2021 (updated Fri Sep 24 14:53:53 EDT 2021)

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