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STAAR vocabulary Test 1 Answer Key

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Written Work
#1 What is a bringing to an end or conclusion? What is closure?
#2 What is to tell or write briefly about the main ideas in a selection? What is summarize?
#3 What is the main point or idea? What is focus?
#4 What is a Part of a written work? What is section?
#5 What are the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage? What is context?
Drama/ Poetry
#1 What are the characters or people acting in a play or story? What is a cast?
#2 What is the person or group for whom a selection is written or performed What is an audience?
#3 What is a division of an act in a play? What is a scene?
#4 What is meter? What is the pattern of accents and beats used in a poem?
#5 What is a group of lines that makes up a verse of a poem or song? What is a stanza?
Words
#1 What is a word part added to the end of a root word that changes its meaning? What is a suffix?
#2 What is a word having the oposite meaning of another word? What is an antonym?
#3 What is a group of letters added to the beginning or end of a word that changes the meaning of the word? What is an affix?
#4 What is a word having the same or almost the same meaning as another word? What is a synonym?
#5 What is a root word to which prefixes and suffixes may be added, forming a new word with a defferent meaning? What is a base word?
Text
#1 What is a story or description of events that may or may not be true? What is narrative?
#2 What is to tell about something? What to inform?
#3 What is a selection containing text based on history? What is historical text?
#4 What is a selection written to inform? What is informational/informative text?
#5 What is a written selection intended to explain an idea, a topic, or a process? What is an informative/explanatory text?
Genres
#1 What is coming from the original source? What is firsthand?
#2 What is the time and place of a story? What is setting?
#3 What is a story passed down from one generation to another by the people of a country or region? What is a folktale?
#4 What is a story that is meant to teach a useful lesson? What is a fable?
#5 What is a form of language belonging to a certain group or region? What is a dialect?
Final Question
What is 'The Little Mermaid' an example of? What is a fairy tale?