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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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common-core
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Fallacious reasoning
Scaffolding
Protagonist
2. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Personification
Cross - curricular
Subordinate
Cohesion
3. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Flat
Plagiarism
Nuances
4. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Atmosphere
Draft
First person
Plot
5. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Repetition
First person
Refrain
6. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Soliloquy
Stereotype
Resolution
7. Main character in fiction or drama
Paraphrase
Objective Summary
Protagonist
Narrative
8. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Analyze
Counterclaim
Third Person Limited
Fiction
9. Lacking stimulating characteristics
First person
Flat
Third person
Onomatopoeia
10. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Point of View
Draft
Pathos
Citation
11. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Objective Summary
Pathos
Fiction
Plot
12. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.
Informative/explanatory text
Phrases
Dialogue
Socratic Seminar
13. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Stereotype
Refrain
Tone
14. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Draft
Exposition
Nuances
Third person
15. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Suspense
Plagiarism
Third Person Limited
Suspense
16. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Soliloquy
Complex
Fallacious reasoning
Motivation
17. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Stanza
Analyze
Information
Conflict
18. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Objective Summary
Hero (tragic)
Stanza
19. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Climax
Resolution
Textual evidence
Informative/explanatory text
20. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Formal
Oxymoron
Cross - curricular
Antagonist
21. The study of the sources and development of words
Dialogue
Symbolism
Etymology
Evaluate
22. Assert or affirm strongly
Flat
Rhyme
Paraphrase
Claim
23. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Transition
Fiction
Theme
24. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.
Citation
Socratic Seminar
Symbolism
Connotation
25. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Cross - curricular
Atmosphere
Character
Simile
26. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Personification
Syntax
Syntax
Fiction
27. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Parallel Structure
Alliteration
Point of View
First person
28. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Narrative
Plagiarism
Parallel plots
29. A convention in drama whereby a character on stage addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling that is presumed inaudible to any other character on stage.
Aside
Onomatopoeia
Subordinate
Fallacious reasoning
30. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
In -text citation
Paraphrase
Onomatopoeia
Cohesion
31. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Narrative
Artistic medium
Third person
32. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Protagonist
Act
Personification
Symbolism
33. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Aside
Complex
Personification
Static
34. Method of character development in which the author reveals the personality of character through their speech - thoughts - actions - appearance - or effects of others toward the character.
Indirect
Summarize
Paraphrase
Speaker
35. A system of scaffolds
Draft
Speaker
Scaffolding
Rhetoric
36. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Indirect
Euphemism
37. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Artistic medium
Resolution
Cross - curricular
Point of View
38. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Plagiarism
Resolution
Scaffolding
Cross - curricular
39. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Analyze
Cross - curricular
Suspense
Information
40. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Symbolism
Act
In -text citation
Plot
41. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Evaluate
Euphemism
Imagery
42. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Third Person Limited
Informative/explanatory text
Cite
43. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Third person
Pathos
Direct Quotation
44. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Repetition
Speaker
Stanza
Third person
45. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Etymology
In -text citation
Tone
Resolution
46. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Counterclaim
Imagery
Motivation
Stereotype
47. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Exposition
Figurative language
Informative/explanatory text
Suspense
48. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Euphemism
Stanza
Tragedy
Aside
49. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Synthesize
Tragedy
Parallel Structure
Figurative language
50. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Independent
Clause
Resolution
Textual evidence