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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. Showing little if any change






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






4. Using language effectively to please or persuade






5. Main character in fiction or drama






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






7. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






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






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. Describe in vivid detail






19. A system of scaffolds






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






21. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






23. Classifying people by their traits.






24. Give the main point or idea






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






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






27. Using language effectively to please or persuade






28. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






30. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






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






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






33. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






34. 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.






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






36. The study of the sources and development of words






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






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






39. Describe in vivid detail






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






46. Make a blueprint of






47. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






48. 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.






49. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






50. Combine so as to form a more complex - product