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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. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
First person
Oxymoron
Direct
Cohesion
2. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Alliteration
Setting
Symbolism
Phrases
3. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Direct Quotation
Internal Conflict
Fiction
Cross - curricular
4. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Complex
Oxymoron
Flat
5. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Subordinate
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Third person
6. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Citation
Suspense
Informative/explanatory text
Symbolism
7. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Summarize
Euphemism
In -text citation
Imagery
8. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Scene
Synthesize
Direct Quotation
Information
9. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Objective Summary
Independent
Tragedy
10. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
First person
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Fallacious reasoning
Oxymoron
11. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Conflict
Counterclaim
Subordinate
Summarize
12. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Onomatopoeia
Cohesion
Pacing
Syntax
13. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
In -text citation
Conjunctive adverbs
Scaffolding
14. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Parallel Structure
Indirect
Aside
Direct Quotation
15. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Evaluate
Suspense
Soliloquy
16. An idea that is implied or suggested
Flashback
Static
Connotation
Cross - curricular
17. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Plagiarism
Mood
Compare and Contrast
18. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Rhetoric
Theme
Motivation
Narrative
19. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Parallel Structure
Argument
Indirect
20. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Aside
Rising Action
Argument
Personification
21. 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
Claim
Plagiarism
Cross - curricular
22. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Flat
Socratic Seminar
Connotation
23. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Argument
Independent
Refrain
Complex
24. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Claim
Stanza
Synthesize
25. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Suspense
Compare and Contrast
Delineate
Dialogue
26. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Draft
Rising Action
Subordinate
Climax
27. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Resolution
Cross - curricular
Citation
Summarize
28. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Symbolism
Argument
Atmosphere
29. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Figurative language
Plagiarism
Cite
30. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Rhetoric
Aside
Parallel plots
Pathos
31. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Hero (tragic)
Climax
Narrative
Point of View
32. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Delineate
Symbolism
Alliteration
In -text citation
33. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Character
Parallel plots
Atmosphere
Aside
34. Character pitted against protagonist
Connotation
Antagonist
Evaluate
Non -fiction
35. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Indirect
Refrain
Antagonist
Nuances
36. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Rising Action
Tragedy
Informative/explanatory text
Socratic Seminar
37. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
In -text citation
Pathos
Suspense
Scaffolding
38. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Refrain
Setting
Tone
Act
39. Assert or affirm strongly
Synthesize
Claim
Atmosphere
Non -fiction
40. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Objective Summary
Climax
Parallel Structure
Narrative
41. Describe in vivid detail
Formal
Delineate
Third person
Stereotype
42. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Stanza
Speaker
Sensory language
43. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Connotation
Non -fiction
Euphemism
Symbolism
44. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Plot
Phrases
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
45. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Motivation
Rhetoric
Figurative language
Characterization (indirect and direct)
46. 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.
Argument
Indirect
Soliloquy
Socratic Seminar
47. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Summarize
Information
Plot
48. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Character
Falling action
Cohesion
Repetition
49. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Point of View
Plagiarism
Draft
Formal
50. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Point of View
Etymology
Aside