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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Citation
Exposition
Draft
Conjunctive adverbs
2. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Atmosphere
Onomatopoeia
Parallel Structure
Direct Quotation
3. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Inference
Symbolism
Climax
Formal
4. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Evaluate
Refrain
Scaffolding
Compare and Contrast
5. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Cite
Point of View
Fallacious reasoning
Textual evidence
6. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Objective Summary
Narrative
Aside
Setting
7. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Rhyme
Personification
Non -fiction
8. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Climax
Informative/explanatory text
Inference
Speaker
9. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Transition
Cite
Motivation
Scene
10. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Point of View
Artistic medium
Dialogue
Connotation
11. Give the main point or idea
Inference
Flashback
Summarize
Act
12. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Euphemism
Round
Tragedy
Direct Quotation
13. Crediting source within the paper.
Static
Draft
Alliteration
In -text citation
14. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Character
Conjunctive adverbs
Scaffolding
15. 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
Non -fiction
Falling action
Hero (tragic)
Direct
16. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Syntax
Internal Conflict
Narrative
Parallel plots
17. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Cross - curricular
Plagiarism
Climax
Mood
18. The study of the sources and development of words
Claim
Phrases
Etymology
Round
19. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Internal Conflict
Point of View
Atmosphere
Tone
20. Describe in vivid detail
Stereotype
Simile
Delineate
Direct
21. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Sensory language
Evaluate
Artistic medium
22. Showing little if any change
Draft
Transition
Symbolism
Static
23. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Point of View
Mood
24. 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
Setting
Hero (tragic)
Euphemism
Oxymoron
25. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Internal Conflict
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Direct Quotation
First person
26. Give the main point or idea
Parallel plots
Symbolism
Transition
Summarize
27. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Evaluate
Personification
Refrain
28. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Climax
Draft
Cross - curricular
Setting
29. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Argument
Round
Falling action
30. Classifying people by their traits.
Round
Citation
Stereotype
Pathos
31. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Socratic Seminar
Indirect
Soliloquy
First person
32. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Imagery
Suspense
Counterclaim
Setting
33. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Informative/explanatory text
Setting
Static
Rhetoric
34. The study of the sources and development of words
Repetition
Etymology
Third person
Direct Quotation
35. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Falling action
Third Person Limited
Stanza
Mood
36. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Repetition
Motivation
Connotation
Draft
37. Crediting source within the paper.
Paraphrase
In -text citation
Artistic medium
Artistic medium
38. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Static
Draft
Direct Quotation
Imagery
39. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Symbolism
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Falling action
Counterclaim
40. 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.
Simile
Complex
Socratic Seminar
Falling action
41. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Stereotype
Speaker
Formal
Third person
42. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Repetition
Round
Non -fiction
43. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Narrative
Tone
Pacing
Imagery
44. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Setting
Suspense
Tone
Summarize
45. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Repetition
Parallel plots
46. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Flashback
Compare and Contrast
Argument
Etymology
47. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Transition
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Setting
Rising Action
48. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Exposition
Euphemism
Artistic medium
Socratic Seminar
49. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Direct
Rhyme
Figurative language
Plot
50. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Rhetoric
Artistic medium
Flat