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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. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Third Person Limited
Stanza
Fiction
Refrain
2. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Soliloquy
Simile
Speaker
Draft
3. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Scaffolding
Personification
Compare and Contrast
4. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Pathos
Figurative language
Act
5. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Complex
Atmosphere
Syntax
Draft
6. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Plagiarism
Cross - curricular
Falling action
Inference
7. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Rhyme
Synthesize
Etymology
8. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Counterclaim
Conflict
Syntax
9. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Inference
Alliteration
Objective Summary
10. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Compare and Contrast
Figurative language
Alliteration
11. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Scaffolding
Falling action
Complex
Conjunctive adverbs
12. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Socratic Seminar
Informative/explanatory text
Tone
Pacing
13. 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.
Suspense
Internal Conflict
Summarize
Personification
14. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Evaluate
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
15. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Delineate
Round
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Information
16. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Tragedy
Summarize
Informative/explanatory text
Atmosphere
17. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Fiction
Subordinate
Fallacious reasoning
18. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Subordinate
Setting
Pacing
Cite
19. 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.
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
Conflict
Evaluate
20. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Argument
Parallel plots
Third Person Limited
Citation
21. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Stanza
Fiction
Tragedy
Cohesion
22. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Draft
Repetition
Cite
First person
23. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Cross - curricular
Transition
Point of View
Synthesize
24. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Climax
Textual evidence
Paraphrase
Information
25. 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.
Evaluate
Indirect
Draft
Point of View
26. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Draft
Setting
Parallel plots
Connotation
27. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Fallacious reasoning
Pacing
Informative/explanatory text
Paraphrase
28. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Draft
Resolution
Paraphrase
Setting
29. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Conjunctive adverbs
Imagery
Character
Rhetoric
30. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Parallel Structure
Alliteration
Summarize
Mood
31. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Suspense
Parallel plots
Theme
Alliteration
32. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Artistic medium
Counterclaim
Fiction
Static
33. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Atmosphere
Indirect
Suspense
34. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Static
Resolution
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Motivation
35. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Symbolism
Direct
Simile
Motivation
36. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Sensory language
Third person
Plagiarism
Dialogue
37. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Tragedy
Evaluate
Simile
Symbolism
38. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Evaluate
Act
Draft
39. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Motivation
Round
Cross - curricular
Plot
40. Tell how things are alike and different
Repetition
Atmosphere
Direct Quotation
Compare and Contrast
41. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Analyze
Climax
Suspense
Third Person Limited
42. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Informative/explanatory text
Protagonist
Speaker
Conjunctive adverbs
43. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Citation
Textual evidence
Tragedy
Direct Quotation
44. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Figurative language
Antagonist
Act
Resolution
45. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Objective Summary
Personification
Personification
Phrases
46. Assert or affirm strongly
Pathos
Claim
Flat
Indirect
47. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Dialogue
Parallel plots
Figurative language
48. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Formal
Draft
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Third Person Limited
49. Crediting source within the paper.
Scene
In -text citation
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Simile
50. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Refrain
Personification
Flat
Repetition