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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Third Person Limited
Motivation
Hero (tragic)
2. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Summarize
Rhetoric
Simile
Draft
3. Tell how things are alike and different
Refrain
Point of View
Summarize
Compare and Contrast
4. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Inference
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Theme
Subordinate
5. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Mood
Euphemism
Parallel Structure
Third person
6. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Falling action
Draft
Third Person Omniscient
Dialogue
7. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Exposition
Synthesize
Narrative
Paraphrase
8. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Cross - curricular
Fiction
Information
Characterization (indirect and direct)
9. 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.
Act
Socratic Seminar
Clause
Argument
10. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Stereotype
Clause
Oxymoron
11. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Simile
Resolution
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Protagonist
12. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Compare and Contrast
Direct
Mood
Conflict
13. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Complex
Imagery
Formal
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
14. Showing little if any change
Informative/explanatory text
Aside
Static
Synthesize
15. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Indirect
Transition
Fiction
16. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Transition
Direct Quotation
Character
Dialogue
17. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Transition
Evaluate
Refrain
Direct Quotation
18. Main character in fiction or drama
Draft
Climax
Protagonist
Fallacious reasoning
19. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Socratic Seminar
Exposition
Pacing
20. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Motivation
Rising Action
Oxymoron
21. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Plagiarism
Nuances
Rhetoric
Resolution
22. A system of scaffolds
Phrases
Scaffolding
Delineate
Protagonist
23. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Summarize
Theme
Sensory language
24. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Claim
Plot
Clause
Symbolism
25. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Tone
Soliloquy
Sensory language
26. 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.
Information
Aside
Connotation
Information
27. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Informative/explanatory text
Cohesion
Draft
Pacing
28. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Counterclaim
Inference
Hero (tragic)
29. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Artistic medium
Scene
Socratic Seminar
30. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Evaluate
Sensory language
Subordinate
Synthesize
31. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scaffolding
Clause
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Scene
32. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Soliloquy
Personification
Paraphrase
33. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Antagonist
Rhetoric
Clause
34. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Third person
Subordinate
Third Person Omniscient
Scene
35. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Rising Action
Pathos
Tragedy
Transition
36. Describe in vivid detail
Clause
Citation
Delineate
Simile
37. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Act
Stereotype
Plagiarism
Counterclaim
38. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Draft
Flat
Onomatopoeia
Motivation
39. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Etymology
Falling action
Motivation
40. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Figurative language
Resolution
Internal Conflict
41. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Fiction
Point of View
Cite
Inference
42. 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.
Repetition
Indirect
Internal Conflict
Connotation
43. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Act
Objective Summary
Suspense
Formal
44. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Act
Syntax
Delineate
Third Person Limited
45. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Citation
Pacing
Compare and Contrast
Personification
46. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Round
Flat
Argument
47. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Synthesize
Conjunctive adverbs
Flat
48. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Formal
Evaluate
Motivation
Exposition
49. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Personification
Paraphrase
Tragedy
Theme
50. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
In -text citation
Mood
Oxymoron
Draft
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