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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Tragedy
Climax
Character
Stereotype
2. Describe in vivid detail
Indirect
Fiction
Delineate
Informative/explanatory text
3. 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
Theme
Hero (tragic)
Plot
Flat
4. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Clause
Personification
Scaffolding
Suspense
5. 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.
Information
Suspense
Static
Flashback
6. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Phrases
Cite
Soliloquy
First person
7. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Cite
Plot
Simile
Summarize
8. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Setting
Onomatopoeia
Protagonist
9. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Static
Resolution
Round
10. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Socratic Seminar
Direct Quotation
In -text citation
Cite
11. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Fallacious reasoning
Suspense
Soliloquy
Figurative language
12. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Parallel Structure
Conflict
Citation
13. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Figurative language
Internal Conflict
Dialogue
Inference
14. The study of the sources and development of words
Atmosphere
Alliteration
Etymology
Stereotype
15. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Static
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Resolution
Tone
16. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Paraphrase
Delineate
Argument
17. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Draft
Objective Summary
Plagiarism
Repetition
18. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Phrases
Rhyme
Tone
Synthesize
19. Main character in fiction or drama
Stereotype
Protagonist
Etymology
Rising Action
20. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Independent
Personification
Citation
Euphemism
21. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Speaker
Transition
Scaffolding
Clause
22. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Stereotype
Draft
Informative/explanatory text
Non -fiction
23. 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
Hero (tragic)
Protagonist
Alliteration
Round
24. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Stereotype
Draft
Subordinate
Atmosphere
25. A system of scaffolds
Fallacious reasoning
Direct
Scaffolding
Socratic Seminar
26. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Alliteration
Inference
First person
Figurative language
27. 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.
Tragedy
Socratic Seminar
Plot
Point of View
28. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Character
Objective Summary
Counterclaim
Paraphrase
29. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Exposition
Alliteration
Plot
Internal Conflict
30. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Flat
Tone
Cohesion
Third person
31. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
In -text citation
Tragedy
Third person
Euphemism
32. Assert or affirm strongly
Plot
Act
Claim
Parallel plots
33. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Clause
Imagery
Figurative language
Draft
34. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Dialogue
Third Person Limited
Falling action
Parallel Structure
35. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Argument
Etymology
Fiction
36. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Figurative language
Simile
Formal
Character
37. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Flat
Rhyme
Conjunctive adverbs
38. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Symbolism
Synthesize
Falling action
Third Person Limited
39. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Parallel Structure
Protagonist
Soliloquy
Indirect
40. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Third Person Omniscient
Theme
Pacing
Draft
41. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Third Person Limited
Citation
Pacing
Act
42. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Draft
Static
Argument
Personification
43. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Summarize
Resolution
Setting
Fallacious reasoning
44. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Informative/explanatory text
Phrases
Evaluate
45. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Speaker
Informative/explanatory text
Flashback
Alliteration
46. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Draft
Rising Action
Tone
47. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Exposition
Rising Action
Subordinate
Clause
48. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Clause
Motivation
Third Person Omniscient
Symbolism
49. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Simile
Dialogue
Rhetoric
Act
50. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Summarize
Inference
Antagonist