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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






3. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






4. Describe in vivid detail






5. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






6. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






7. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






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






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






10. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






11. 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.






12. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






13. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






14. Testimony that is presented word for word.






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






18. 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.






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






20. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






21. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






22. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






23. Assert or affirm strongly






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






25. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






26. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






27. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






28. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






29. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






30. 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






31. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






32. Examine and judge carefully.






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






34. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






36. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






37. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






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






39. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






40. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






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






42. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






43. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






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






45. Tell how things are alike and different






46. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






48. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






49. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






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







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