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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. 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
Third Person Limited
Evaluate
Hero (tragic)
Motivation
2. 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.
Cross - curricular
Third Person Omniscient
In -text citation
Third person
3. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Socratic Seminar
Draft
Fallacious reasoning
Simile
4. 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.
Plot
Complex
Socratic Seminar
Act
5. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Parallel plots
Act
Motivation
Pathos
6. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Indirect
Connotation
Draft
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
7. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Onomatopoeia
Soliloquy
Internal Conflict
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
8. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Synthesize
Conjunctive adverbs
Onomatopoeia
Phrases
9. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Pathos
Cross - curricular
Atmosphere
Clause
10. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Act
Protagonist
Static
Cite
11. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Hero (tragic)
First person
Counterclaim
Static
12. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Alliteration
Cross - curricular
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Scaffolding
13. Crediting source within the paper.
Etymology
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Speaker
In -text citation
14. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Tragedy
Rhyme
Speaker
Symbolism
15. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Motivation
Round
Falling action
Mood
16. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Informative/explanatory text
Complex
Claim
Pacing
17. Make a blueprint of
Fiction
Draft
Resolution
Character
18. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Cohesion
Etymology
Resolution
Informative/explanatory text
19. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Parallel Structure
Analyze
Round
Direct
20. Classifying people by their traits.
Rising Action
Stereotype
In -text citation
Flat
21. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Plagiarism
Sensory language
Narrative
Conjunctive adverbs
22. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Symbolism
Argument
Atmosphere
Delineate
23. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Resolution
First person
Protagonist
24. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Syntax
Narrative
Third Person Limited
Characterization (indirect and direct)
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.
Subordinate
Tragedy
Euphemism
Indirect
26. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Hero (tragic)
Analyze
Inference
Mood
27. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Euphemism
Artistic medium
Aside
Personification
28. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Protagonist
Soliloquy
Clause
Indirect
29. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Synthesize
Tragedy
Transition
Indirect
30. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Static
Informative/explanatory text
Mood
Soliloquy
31. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Argument
Personification
Non -fiction
Scaffolding
32. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Plagiarism
Socratic Seminar
Resolution
Formal
33. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Draft
Objective Summary
Theme
Formal
34. An idea that is implied or suggested
Alliteration
Draft
Third Person Limited
Connotation
35. The state of cohering or sticking together
Flashback
Cohesion
Point of View
Nuances
36. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Theme
Socratic Seminar
Stanza
Etymology
37. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Compare and Contrast
Climax
Theme
Round
38. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Conflict
Third Person Limited
Subordinate
39. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Symbolism
Plagiarism
Pacing
Euphemism
40. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Cite
Theme
Repetition
41. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Flat
Stanza
Point of View
Informative/explanatory text
42. 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.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Setting
Point of View
Aside
43. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Speaker
Paraphrase
Non -fiction
44. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Informative/explanatory text
Sensory language
Character
45. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Direct Quotation
Dialogue
Protagonist
46. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Alliteration
Fiction
Synthesize
Oxymoron
47. Describe in vivid detail
Parallel Structure
Delineate
Simile
Third person
48. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Fallacious reasoning
Rhyme
Conflict
49. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Rising Action
Third Person Omniscient
Character
Independent
50. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Information
Atmosphere
Exposition
Figurative language
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