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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Scaffolding
Conjunctive adverbs
Complex
Tone
2. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Rhetoric
Clause
Draft
Artistic medium
3. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Independent
Third Person Limited
Paraphrase
Compare and Contrast
4. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Information
Subordinate
Motivation
Oxymoron
5. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Parallel Structure
First person
Flat
Personification
6. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Character
Symbolism
Scene
Alliteration
7. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Flat
Sensory language
Rhetoric
Independent
8. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Scaffolding
Non -fiction
Resolution
Setting
9. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Conflict
Exposition
Tone
Synthesize
10. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Connotation
Suspense
Rising Action
11. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Act
Atmosphere
Draft
Character
12. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Evaluate
Direct
Textual evidence
13. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Soliloquy
Non -fiction
Phrases
14. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Indirect
Plagiarism
Onomatopoeia
15. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Transition
Figurative language
Flashback
16. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Simile
Imagery
Rhetoric
17. Assert or affirm strongly
Clause
Claim
Repetition
Citation
18. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Act
Direct
Evaluate
Argument
19. Main character in fiction or drama
Conflict
Protagonist
Antagonist
Artistic medium
20. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Plagiarism
Third Person Omniscient
Complex
Scene
21. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Narrative
Plagiarism
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Repetition
22. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Flashback
Imagery
Symbolism
Information
23. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Parallel plots
Stanza
Draft
Mood
24. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Euphemism
Soliloquy
Plagiarism
Complex
25. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Character
Paraphrase
Onomatopoeia
Stanza
26. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Analyze
Climax
Rhetoric
27. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Parallel Structure
Stanza
Non -fiction
28. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Flat
Repetition
Alliteration
Parallel Structure
29. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Pathos
Round
Stereotype
Tone
30. An idea that is implied or suggested
Third person
Connotation
Rising Action
Pacing
31. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Repetition
In -text citation
Rhetoric
Aside
32. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Rising Action
Artistic medium
Pacing
Flat
33. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Socratic Seminar
Dialogue
Formal
Scene
34. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Mood
Direct Quotation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rhyme
35. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Direct Quotation
Draft
Falling action
Plot
36. 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.
Simile
Internal Conflict
Indirect
Theme
37. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Motivation
Figurative language
Rhetoric
38. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Cite
Claim
Conflict
Non -fiction
39. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Pathos
Refrain
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Direct
40. The state of cohering or sticking together
Tragedy
Cohesion
Rhetoric
First person
41. Character pitted against protagonist
Simile
Antagonist
Information
Repetition
42. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Imagery
Tragedy
Antagonist
Transition
43. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Alliteration
Personification
Flashback
Theme
44. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Refrain
Resolution
Counterclaim
Syntax
45. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Round
Tone
Falling action
46. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Direct
Dialogue
Citation
Cohesion
47. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Scene
Paraphrase
Information
48. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Scene
Artistic medium
Atmosphere
Counterclaim
49. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Narrative
Fiction
Conjunctive adverbs
50. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Direct Quotation
Falling action
In -text citation
Symbolism