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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






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






4. The study of the sources and development of words






5. Describe in vivid detail






6. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






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






8. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






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






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. A system of scaffolds






13. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






14. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






15. Main character in fiction or drama






16. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






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






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






20. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






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






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






23. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






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






25. Tell how things are alike and different






26. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






28. Give the main point or idea






29. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






30. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






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






32. Crediting source within the paper.






33. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






34. Lacking stimulating characteristics






35. 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






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






37. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






38. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






40. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






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






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






43. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






46. Examine and judge carefully.






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






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






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






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