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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To examine carefully; study closely






2. Assert or affirm strongly






3. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






4. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






5. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






6. Main character in fiction or drama






7. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






8. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






9. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






10. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






11. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






12. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






13. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






14. Tell how things are alike and different






15. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






16. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






17. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






18. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






19. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






20. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






21. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






22. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






23. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






24. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






25. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






26. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






27. 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.






28. Lacking stimulating characteristics






29. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






30. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






31. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






32. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






33. An idea that is implied or suggested






34. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






35. 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.






36. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






37. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






38. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






39. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






40. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






41. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






42. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






43. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






44. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






45. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






46. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






47. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






48. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






49. 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






50. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.