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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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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Symbolism
Act
Non -fiction
2. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Artistic medium
Compare and Contrast
Antagonist
3. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Summarize
Climax
Plot
Tragedy
4. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Objective Summary
Complex
Draft
Repetition
5. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Scaffolding
Character
Textual evidence
6. Make a blueprint of
Pathos
Cross - curricular
Draft
Socratic Seminar
7. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Independent
Rhyme
Flashback
Resolution
8. 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.
Figurative language
Third Person Omniscient
Claim
Atmosphere
9. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Static
Pacing
Falling action
Parallel Structure
10. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Sensory language
Round
Mood
11. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Third Person Limited
Pacing
Exposition
Parallel plots
12. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Pathos
Repetition
Third person
Parallel plots
13. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Cite
Suspense
Delineate
Paraphrase
14. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Conflict
Point of View
Atmosphere
Simile
15. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rising Action
Draft
Flashback
16. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Resolution
First person
Clause
Dialogue
17. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Theme
Scene
Flashback
Character
18. 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.
Flashback
Fiction
Independent
Climax
19. Main character in fiction or drama
Objective Summary
Refrain
Protagonist
Direct
20. The state of cohering or sticking together
Transition
Cross - curricular
Cohesion
Direct
21. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Pathos
Symbolism
Summarize
Synthesize
22. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Indirect
Delineate
Tone
Textual evidence
23. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Simile
Act
Stereotype
Fallacious reasoning
24. 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.
Cite
Socratic Seminar
Paraphrase
Conjunctive adverbs
25. 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.
Soliloquy
Fallacious reasoning
Third Person Omniscient
Antagonist
26. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Fiction
Non -fiction
Rhetoric
Citation
27. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Motivation
Act
Onomatopoeia
Cite
28. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Aside
Claim
Internal Conflict
29. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Claim
Pathos
Connotation
Cohesion
30. Main character in fiction or drama
Symbolism
Oxymoron
Third Person Omniscient
Protagonist
31. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Theme
Alliteration
Draft
32. To examine carefully; study closely
Flat
Analyze
Parallel Structure
Static
33. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Etymology
Fallacious reasoning
Mood
Pacing
34. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Conjunctive adverbs
Euphemism
Dialogue
Character
35. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Parallel plots
Syntax
Delineate
Citation
36. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Cohesion
Rising Action
First person
Narrative
37. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Internal Conflict
Theme
Claim
Speaker
38. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Informative/explanatory text
Onomatopoeia
Phrases
Draft
39. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Repetition
Cohesion
Alliteration
Simile
40. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Non -fiction
Falling action
Citation
Repetition
41. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Paraphrase
Theme
Falling action
Alliteration
42. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Delineate
Protagonist
Stanza
Flat
43. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Aside
First person
Characterization (indirect and direct)
44. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Rhetoric
Rising Action
Oxymoron
45. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Falling action
Resolution
Flashback
46. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Tone
Resolution
Oxymoron
47. 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
Subordinate
Character
Hero (tragic)
Simile
48. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Mood
Nuances
Flat
Refrain
49. Classifying people by their traits.
Objective Summary
Antagonist
Stereotype
Personification
50. Character pitted against protagonist
Motivation
Flat
Antagonist
Pathos