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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Symbolism
Draft
Falling action
2. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Figurative language
Speaker
Refrain
First person
3. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Speaker
Stanza
Static
Inference
4. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Textual evidence
Citation
Flashback
5. The state of cohering or sticking together
Formal
Flashback
Counterclaim
Cohesion
6. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
First person
Round
Imagery
Third person
7. Examine and judge carefully.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Socratic Seminar
Evaluate
Plagiarism
8. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Repetition
Oxymoron
Cite
Figurative language
9. A system of scaffolds
Plot
Figurative language
Subordinate
Scaffolding
10. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Direct Quotation
Draft
Information
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
11. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Draft
Hero (tragic)
Direct
12. To examine carefully; study closely
Oxymoron
Tragedy
Analyze
Characterization (indirect and direct)
13. An idea that is implied or suggested
Draft
Textual evidence
Onomatopoeia
Connotation
14. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Onomatopoeia
Summarize
Third person
Rhyme
15. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Character
Cross - curricular
Cross - curricular
Repetition
16. 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.
Plagiarism
Aside
Rising Action
Fiction
17. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Flat
Stereotype
Personification
18. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Character
Cohesion
Static
Counterclaim
19. An idea that is implied or suggested
Third Person Omniscient
Refrain
Oxymoron
Connotation
20. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Third Person Limited
Connotation
Symbolism
21. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Delineate
Parallel Structure
Socratic Seminar
Antagonist
22. To examine carefully; study closely
Summarize
Analyze
Delineate
Point of View
23. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Pathos
Sensory language
Parallel Structure
Dialogue
24. 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.
Falling action
Rhetoric
Aside
Argument
25. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Repetition
Simile
Conflict
Round
26. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Draft
Pathos
Stereotype
Artistic medium
27. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Scene
Rising Action
Information
Internal Conflict
28. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Scaffolding
In -text citation
Synthesize
Paraphrase
29. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Evaluate
Argument
Exposition
Oxymoron
30. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Complex
Connotation
Nuances
Delineate
31. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Cohesion
Analyze
Fiction
Internal Conflict
32. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Personification
Counterclaim
Independent
Suspense
33. 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.
Narrative
Fallacious reasoning
Character
Flashback
34. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Formal
Character
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rising Action
35. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Plagiarism
Delineate
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Stereotype
36. 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.
Citation
Rising Action
Informative/explanatory text
Socratic Seminar
37. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Formal
Formal
Phrases
Draft
38. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Indirect
Static
Rising Action
Symbolism
39. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Exposition
Socratic Seminar
Stanza
40. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Inference
Third Person Omniscient
Figurative language
41. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Symbolism
Plagiarism
Direct
Setting
42. Classifying people by their traits.
Sensory language
Tragedy
Stereotype
Third Person Omniscient
43. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Clause
Atmosphere
Onomatopoeia
Phrases
44. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Scene
Conjunctive adverbs
Paraphrase
Symbolism
45. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Compare and Contrast
Etymology
Symbolism
46. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Clause
Transition
Complex
Exposition
47. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Plot
Information
Imagery
48. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Symbolism
Flashback
Plagiarism
49. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Atmosphere
Draft
Tone
Stanza
50. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Stereotype
Synthesize
Imagery
Textual evidence