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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. A system of scaffolds
Figurative language
Inference
Scaffolding
Resolution
2. 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.
Internal Conflict
Objective Summary
Scaffolding
Synthesize
3. Classifying people by their traits.
Aside
Cohesion
Compare and Contrast
Stereotype
4. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Cohesion
Theme
Oxymoron
5. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Scaffolding
Rising Action
Soliloquy
Symbolism
6. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Direct Quotation
Setting
Sensory language
7. The study of the sources and development of words
Plagiarism
Fiction
Etymology
Delineate
8. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Information
Direct Quotation
Euphemism
Onomatopoeia
9. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Antagonist
Rhyme
Plagiarism
Setting
10. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Onomatopoeia
Cite
Rhyme
Direct
11. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Act
Textual evidence
Parallel Structure
Onomatopoeia
12. 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.
Textual evidence
Aside
Cohesion
Symbolism
13. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Argument
Direct Quotation
Pathos
Non -fiction
14. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Dialogue
Resolution
Complex
15. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Static
Connotation
Refrain
Third Person Limited
16. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Connotation
Rising Action
Alliteration
Syntax
17. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Falling action
Artistic medium
Cite
18. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Repetition
Clause
Draft
Fallacious reasoning
19. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Motivation
Complex
Etymology
20. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Summarize
Phrases
Speaker
Third person
21. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Etymology
Tone
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Fiction
22. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Independent
Figurative language
Alliteration
Clause
23. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Theme
Figurative language
Rising Action
24. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Alliteration
Falling action
Simile
Oxymoron
25. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Protagonist
Character
Connotation
Pacing
26. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Rhyme
Artistic medium
Counterclaim
27. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Direct Quotation
Fallacious reasoning
Hero (tragic)
28. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Fiction
Transition
Pacing
Draft
29. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Rhyme
First person
Claim
30. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Citation
Socratic Seminar
In -text citation
31. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Imagery
Indirect
Direct Quotation
Dialogue
32. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Flat
Information
Complex
33. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Etymology
Citation
Non -fiction
34. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Rhetoric
Personification
Pathos
First person
35. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Protagonist
Informative/explanatory text
Theme
Direct
36. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Clause
Plagiarism
Simile
Objective Summary
37. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Pacing
Plagiarism
Speaker
Internal Conflict
38. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Citation
Cross - curricular
Phrases
Conjunctive adverbs
39. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Complex
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Third Person Limited
Narrative
40. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Informative/explanatory text
Point of View
Plot
Socratic Seminar
41. Examine and judge carefully.
Delineate
Formal
Evaluate
Static
42. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Complex
Analyze
Symbolism
Sensory language
43. Assert or affirm strongly
Cite
Claim
Falling action
Sensory language
44. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Oxymoron
Point of View
45. Assert or affirm strongly
Direct
Claim
Cite
Oxymoron
46. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Climax
Formal
Draft
Motivation
47. 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
Citation
Soliloquy
Cite
Hero (tragic)
48. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Paraphrase
Compare and Contrast
Climax
49. Examine and judge carefully.
Exposition
Internal Conflict
Evaluate
Pathos
50. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
In -text citation
Protagonist
Informative/explanatory text
Textual evidence
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