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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Atmosphere
Euphemism
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
2. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Socratic Seminar
Antagonist
Formal
3. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Oxymoron
Character
Alliteration
Refrain
4. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Symbolism
Oxymoron
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Draft
5. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Third Person Limited
Pacing
Conjunctive adverbs
Indirect
6. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Third Person Omniscient
Non -fiction
Parallel Structure
7. Tell how things are alike and different
Parallel plots
Motivation
Analyze
Compare and Contrast
8. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Independent
Tone
Point of View
9. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Fiction
Information
Argument
10. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Cross - curricular
Personification
Third Person Omniscient
Formal
11. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Artistic medium
Oxymoron
Figurative language
Flat
12. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Syntax
Citation
Direct Quotation
13. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Flat
Hero (tragic)
Resolution
14. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Exposition
Aside
Theme
15. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Paraphrase
Direct
Flat
Draft
16. The narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening.
Scaffolding
Point of View
Sensory language
Third Person Omniscient
17. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
Setting
18. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Draft
Rising Action
Textual evidence
Protagonist
19. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Soliloquy
Pacing
Citation
20. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Stereotype
Evaluate
Fallacious reasoning
Symbolism
21. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Suspense
Draft
Soliloquy
22. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Analyze
Tone
Non -fiction
Formal
23. Showing little if any change
Syntax
Conflict
Artistic medium
Static
24. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Counterclaim
Argument
Analyze
Tone
25. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Direct Quotation
Delineate
Artistic medium
Suspense
26. Character pitted against protagonist
Refrain
Antagonist
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rising Action
27. The state of cohering or sticking together
First person
Resolution
Cohesion
Symbolism
28. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Textual evidence
Plagiarism
Dialogue
Complex
29. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Repetition
Information
Direct
Draft
30. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Exposition
Syntax
Plot
Repetition
31. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Analyze
Cite
Plagiarism
32. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Subordinate
Repetition
Informative/explanatory text
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
33. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Pathos
Suspense
Counterclaim
Repetition
34. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Euphemism
Conflict
Citation
35. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Figurative language
Connotation
Draft
Mood
36. 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.
Plot
Etymology
Inference
Aside
37. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
First person
Exposition
38. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Climax
Simile
Fiction
39. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Suspense
Tone
Non -fiction
Rhyme
40. 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.
In -text citation
Non -fiction
Internal Conflict
Flat
41. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Transition
Imagery
Synthesize
Falling action
42. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
In -text citation
Rising Action
Rising Action
43. Crediting source within the paper.
Mood
Indirect
Internal Conflict
In -text citation
44. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Hero (tragic)
Personification
Theme
45. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Third person
Speaker
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Oxymoron
46. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Falling action
Oxymoron
Third Person Limited
47. The study of the sources and development of words
Pathos
Etymology
Euphemism
Clause
48. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Cross - curricular
Flat
Scaffolding
Nuances
49. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Rhetoric
Imagery
Delineate
50. Assert or affirm strongly
Soliloquy
Exposition
Claim
Flashback
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