SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
common-core
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Third Person Limited
Oxymoron
Evaluate
Rising Action
2. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Flat
Evaluate
Artistic medium
Draft
3. 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.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Aside
First person
Indirect
4. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Internal Conflict
Plagiarism
Phrases
Nuances
5. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Refrain
Clause
First person
Sensory language
6. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Artistic medium
Information
Refrain
Scaffolding
7. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Flashback
Point of View
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Draft
8. 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.
Socratic Seminar
Etymology
Conjunctive adverbs
Scaffolding
9. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Rhetoric
Aside
Parallel Structure
10. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Analyze
Rhetoric
Figurative language
Tone
11. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Plagiarism
Citation
Exposition
12. Examine and judge carefully.
Dialogue
Evaluate
Fiction
Fallacious reasoning
13. Main character in fiction or drama
Third person
Exposition
Onomatopoeia
Protagonist
14. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Speaker
Suspense
Character
Direct
15. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Textual evidence
Syntax
Conflict
16. The study of the sources and development of words
Compare and Contrast
Counterclaim
Third Person Omniscient
Etymology
17. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Setting
Citation
Character
18. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Complex
Subordinate
Climax
19. 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.
Narrative
Alliteration
Socratic Seminar
Third Person Omniscient
20. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Internal Conflict
Third Person Limited
Independent
Personification
21. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Plagiarism
Onomatopoeia
Setting
Draft
22. Scene in a movie - play - short story - novel - or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
Argument
Simile
Point of View
Flashback
23. The state of cohering or sticking together
Argument
Hero (tragic)
Simile
Cohesion
24. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Analyze
Direct
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Antagonist
25. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Delineate
Pacing
Act
Paraphrase
26. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Transition
Internal Conflict
Suspense
Information
27. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Mood
Analyze
Alliteration
Analyze
28. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Objective Summary
Personification
Antagonist
Motivation
29. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Rising Action
Plagiarism
Etymology
30. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Climax
Theme
Indirect
31. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Syntax
Socratic Seminar
Summarize
Subordinate
32. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Scene
Plot
Conflict
33. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Suspense
Plot
Delineate
Fiction
34. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Tragedy
Argument
Transition
35. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Draft
Artistic medium
Tragedy
Summarize
36. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Textual evidence
Resolution
Fiction
37. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Draft
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Speaker
Evaluate
38. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Citation
Cite
Atmosphere
Formal
39. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Phrases
Transition
Euphemism
40. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Static
Tragedy
Information
Onomatopoeia
41. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Phrases
Citation
Indirect
42. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Cite
Tragedy
Hero (tragic)
Climax
43. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Conjunctive adverbs
Soliloquy
Claim
Theme
44. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Oxymoron
Independent
Point of View
45. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Plot
Atmosphere
Symbolism
Draft
46. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Summarize
Imagery
Textual evidence
Exposition
47. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Stereotype
Hero (tragic)
Etymology
Internal Conflict
48. To examine carefully; study closely
Synthesize
Analyze
Etymology
Internal Conflict
49. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Personification
In -text citation
Etymology
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
50. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Protagonist
Clause
Third person
Draft