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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. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Flashback
Figurative language
Textual evidence
Clause
2. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Rising Action
Textual evidence
Resolution
Information
3. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Act
Falling action
Stereotype
Pacing
4. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Act
Point of View
Setting
Imagery
5. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Euphemism
Transition
Exposition
Internal Conflict
6. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Citation
Round
Evaluate
7. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Theme
Resolution
In -text citation
8. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Information
Euphemism
Suspense
Pathos
9. 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.
First person
Third Person Omniscient
Fiction
Draft
10. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Argument
Conflict
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Objective Summary
11. 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
Point of View
Static
Hero (tragic)
Euphemism
12. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Round
Parallel Structure
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Plagiarism
13. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Third Person Limited
Simile
Etymology
Figurative language
14. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Character
Pathos
Resolution
Phrases
15. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Onomatopoeia
Argument
Conjunctive adverbs
Simile
16. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Phrases
Counterclaim
Information
Climax
17. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
First person
Point of View
Theme
Soliloquy
18. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Hero (tragic)
Climax
Falling action
Clause
19. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Fallacious reasoning
Clause
Phrases
Exposition
20. Assert or affirm strongly
Conflict
Claim
Compare and Contrast
Imagery
21. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Antagonist
Third person
Motivation
Paraphrase
22. Tell how things are alike and different
In -text citation
Third Person Limited
Compare and Contrast
Speaker
23. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Independent
Formal
Plagiarism
Antagonist
24. Describe in vivid detail
Personification
Textual evidence
Delineate
Falling action
25. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Motivation
Onomatopoeia
Cite
Mood
26. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Conjunctive adverbs
Atmosphere
Rhyme
Phrases
27. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Static
Inference
Stanza
Complex
28. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Resolution
Figurative language
Act
29. 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
Scaffolding
Hero (tragic)
Summarize
Round
30. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Point of View
Stereotype
First person
Mood
31. Character pitted against protagonist
Objective Summary
Suspense
Antagonist
Artistic medium
32. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Third person
Hero (tragic)
Plagiarism
33. 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.
Resolution
Internal Conflict
First person
Rising Action
34. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Informative/explanatory text
Stanza
Complex
Informative/explanatory text
35. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Resolution
Synthesize
Formal
Falling action
36. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Direct
Textual evidence
Euphemism
37. The study of the sources and development of words
Rhyme
Plagiarism
Suspense
Etymology
38. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Transition
Point of View
Paraphrase
Non -fiction
39. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Draft
Phrases
Synthesize
Citation
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.
Plagiarism
Character
Internal Conflict
Inference
41. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Aside
Nuances
Resolution
Theme
42. Describe in vivid detail
Counterclaim
Stereotype
Delineate
Complex
43. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Analyze
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rising Action
Claim
44. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Alliteration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Artistic medium
Claim
45. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Summarize
Character
Independent
46. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Symbolism
Motivation
Dialogue
47. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Falling action
Nuances
Flashback
Evaluate
48. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Simile
Point of View
Refrain
49. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Argument
Subordinate
Draft
Speaker
50. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Synthesize
Inference
Delineate