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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 unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Internal Conflict
Setting
Climax
Theme
2. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Third Person Limited
Euphemism
Parallel plots
Pacing
3. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Inference
Objective Summary
Textual evidence
Euphemism
4. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Motivation
First person
Personification
5. Describe in vivid detail
Cite
Stereotype
Conjunctive adverbs
Delineate
6. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Delineate
Socratic Seminar
Textual evidence
7. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Static
Transition
Rising Action
8. Main character in fiction or drama
Character
Conjunctive adverbs
Textual evidence
Protagonist
9. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Exposition
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Motivation
Setting
10. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Parallel Structure
Subordinate
Third person
11. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Rising Action
Motivation
Socratic Seminar
12. Give the main point or idea
Subordinate
Summarize
Aside
Narrative
13. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Complex
Theme
Oxymoron
Stanza
14. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Pacing
Socratic Seminar
Subordinate
Rhetoric
15. Assert or affirm strongly
Objective Summary
Claim
Antagonist
Cross - curricular
16. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Evaluate
Information
Antagonist
First person
17. To examine carefully; study closely
Flat
Analyze
Symbolism
Motivation
18. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Parallel Structure
Protagonist
Argument
Hero (tragic)
19. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Mood
Fallacious reasoning
Compare and Contrast
Speaker
20. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Dialogue
Pacing
Speaker
Climax
21. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Third person
Refrain
Informative/explanatory text
22. 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
Act
Imagery
Motivation
23. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Textual evidence
Complex
Transition
Citation
24. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Cross - curricular
Citation
Summarize
First person
25. Classifying people by their traits.
Synthesize
Stereotype
Atmosphere
Falling action
26. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Parallel Structure
Conjunctive adverbs
Direct Quotation
Symbolism
27. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Counterclaim
Summarize
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
28. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Setting
Character
Oxymoron
Non -fiction
29. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Imagery
Textual evidence
Complex
Draft
30. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Flat
In -text citation
Suspense
Dialogue
31. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Tragedy
Stanza
Direct Quotation
Argument
32. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Third Person Omniscient
Inference
Onomatopoeia
33. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Etymology
Flat
Refrain
34. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Independent
Inference
35. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Summarize
Cite
Phrases
36. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Analyze
Parallel plots
Round
Narrative
37. Describe in vivid detail
Flashback
Delineate
Artistic medium
Etymology
38. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Synthesize
Formal
Plot
39. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Stanza
Symbolism
Motivation
Rhyme
40. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Third Person Limited
Speaker
Informative/explanatory text
Euphemism
41. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Conjunctive adverbs
Connotation
Setting
Counterclaim
42. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Rhyme
Parallel Structure
Euphemism
Protagonist
43. The study of the sources and development of words
Formal
Onomatopoeia
Etymology
Characterization (indirect and direct)
44. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Compare and Contrast
Socratic Seminar
Soliloquy
Objective Summary
45. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Claim
Tragedy
Conjunctive adverbs
46. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Plot
Character
Figurative language
Parallel Structure
47. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Direct Quotation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Scaffolding
48. Scene in a movie - play - short story - novel - or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
Cite
Euphemism
Flashback
Dialogue
49. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Personification
Point of View
Parallel Structure
50. Showing little if any change
Motivation
Soliloquy
Third Person Limited
Static