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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






2. To examine carefully; study closely






3. Testimony that is presented word for word.






4. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






5. Crediting source within the paper.






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






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






8. Assert or affirm strongly






9. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






10. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






11. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






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






13. 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.






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






15. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






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






18. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






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






20. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






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






22. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






24. Crediting source within the paper.






25. Make a blueprint of






26. The study of the sources and development of words






27. Give the main point or idea






28. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






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






30. Showing little if any change






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






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






33. 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.






34. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






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






36. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






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






38. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






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






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






41. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






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






43. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






44. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






45. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






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






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






48. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






49. 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.






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