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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Give the main point or idea






2. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






3. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






4. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






5. The state of cohering or sticking together






6. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






7. Examine and judge carefully.






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






9. A system of scaffolds






10. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






11. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






12. To examine carefully; study closely






13. An idea that is implied or suggested






14. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






15. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






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.






17. The study of the sources and development of words






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






19. An idea that is implied or suggested






20. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






21. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






22. To examine carefully; study closely






23. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






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.






25. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






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






27. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






29. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






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






31. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






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






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.






34. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






35. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






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.






37. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






38. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






39. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






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






41. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






42. Classifying people by their traits.






43. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






44. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






45. Crediting source within the paper.






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






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






48. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






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






50. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position