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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Describe in vivid detail






2. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






3. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






4. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






5. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






6. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






7. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






8. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






9. An idea that is implied or suggested






10. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






11. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






12. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






13. A hero or heroine is the principle character in a movie - novel - or play - especially one who plays a vital role in plot development and solves the conflict. (A tragic hero is usually a dignified - courageous - and high - ranking character whose eve






14. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






15. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






16. Crediting source within the paper.






17. Showing little if any change






18. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






19. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






20. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






21. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






22. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






23. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






24. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






25. Lacking stimulating characteristics






26. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






27. Make a blueprint of






28. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






29. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






30. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






31. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






32. Describe in vivid detail






33. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






34. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






35. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






36. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






37. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






38. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






39. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






40. A hero or heroine is the principle character in a movie - novel - or play - especially one who plays a vital role in plot development and solves the conflict. (A tragic hero is usually a dignified - courageous - and high - ranking character whose eve






41. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






42. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






43. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






44. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.






45. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






46. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






47. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






48. Main character in fiction or drama






49. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






50. Linking with other subjects taught in school.