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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






2. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






3. Crediting source within the paper.






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






5. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






6. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






8. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






9. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






10. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






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






12. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






13. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






14. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






15. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






16. 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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. The study of the sources and development of words






21. The state of cohering or sticking together






22. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






23. Classifying people by their traits.






24. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






25. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






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






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






28. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






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






30. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






31. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






32. Showing little if any change






33. A system of scaffolds






34. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






35. Method of character development in which the author reveals the personality of character through their speech - thoughts - actions - appearance - or effects of others toward the character.






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






37. The state of cohering or sticking together






38. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






39. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






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






41. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






42. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






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






44. Tell how things are alike and different






45. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






46. 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.






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






48. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






49. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






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






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