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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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1. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Character
Informative/explanatory text
Sensory language
Protagonist
2. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Static
Nuances
Round
3. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Exposition
Pacing
Character
Alliteration
4. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Phrases
Atmosphere
Simile
Onomatopoeia
5. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
First person
Plot
Sensory language
Speaker
6. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Draft
Atmosphere
Oxymoron
Figurative language
7. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Independent
Etymology
Pacing
8. The study of the sources and development of words
Figurative language
Etymology
Rhyme
Repetition
9. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Phrases
Synthesize
Repetition
10. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Informative/explanatory text
Simile
Connotation
11. Examine and judge carefully.
Setting
Compare and Contrast
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Evaluate
12. The study of the sources and development of words
Rhetoric
Third Person Omniscient
Etymology
Tone
13. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Summarize
Speaker
Syntax
Rising Action
14. Showing little if any change
Oxymoron
Internal Conflict
Sensory language
Static
15. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Symbolism
Summarize
Figurative language
Round
16. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Third Person Limited
First person
In -text citation
17. Describe in vivid detail
Antagonist
Oxymoron
Delineate
Symbolism
18. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Flat
Objective Summary
Exposition
Direct
19. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Fallacious reasoning
Simile
Fiction
20. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Hero (tragic)
Pathos
Euphemism
Argument
21. Showing little if any change
Repetition
Static
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Stereotype
22. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Informative/explanatory text
Indirect
Alliteration
Climax
23. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Pathos
Hero (tragic)
Euphemism
Plot
24. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Fiction
Cite
Indirect
Independent
25. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Round
Parallel Structure
Delineate
Soliloquy
26. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Antagonist
Scaffolding
Personification
Rhetoric
27. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Syntax
Sensory language
Draft
28. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
First person
Rhyme
Climax
Citation
29. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Simile
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Alliteration
Inference
30. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Repetition
Simile
Theme
31. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Complex
Cross - curricular
Fiction
Resolution
32. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Atmosphere
Textual evidence
Repetition
Plot
33. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Suspense
Indirect
Socratic Seminar
34. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Formal
Delineate
Refrain
Etymology
35. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Personification
Connotation
Information
36. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Transition
Fallacious reasoning
Round
Narrative
37. A system of scaffolds
Third Person Omniscient
Scaffolding
Motivation
In -text citation
38. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Tone
Narrative
Rhyme
Nuances
39. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Formal
Third person
Counterclaim
Soliloquy
40. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Repetition
Synthesize
Subordinate
Informative/explanatory text
41. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Plagiarism
Informative/explanatory text
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Claim
42. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Stereotype
Phrases
Scaffolding
43. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Third Person Omniscient
Oxymoron
Objective Summary
Round
44. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Hero (tragic)
Static
Exposition
45. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
In -text citation
Rhetoric
Cite
Third Person Limited
46. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Plagiarism
Round
Tone
47. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Symbolism
Rhyme
Counterclaim
Aside
48. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Third Person Limited
Argument
Resolution
49. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Scaffolding
Falling action
Nuances
50. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Tragedy
Formal
Suspense
Connotation