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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To examine carefully; study closely
Direct
Mood
Analyze
Pacing
2. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Connotation
Character
Climax
Atmosphere
3. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Claim
Scene
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
4. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Direct Quotation
Phrases
Rising Action
Suspense
5. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Syntax
Third person
Flat
Citation
6. Assert or affirm strongly
Protagonist
Sensory language
Flashback
Claim
7. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Third Person Limited
Scene
Static
8. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Draft
Parallel Structure
Pacing
Evaluate
9. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Evaluate
Simile
Argument
Imagery
10. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Falling action
Conjunctive adverbs
11. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Non -fiction
Character
Mood
Flat
12. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
First person
Clause
Antagonist
Static
13. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Euphemism
Connotation
Phrases
14. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Rhetoric
Sensory language
Formal
Narrative
15. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Refrain
Dialogue
Pacing
Parallel plots
16. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Compare and Contrast
Inference
Direct Quotation
Oxymoron
17. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Refrain
Narrative
Exposition
18. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Setting
Cross - curricular
Symbolism
Draft
19. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Pacing
Antagonist
Paraphrase
Resolution
20. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Onomatopoeia
Refrain
Tone
Character
21. 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.
Evaluate
Alliteration
Third Person Omniscient
Compare and Contrast
22. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
In -text citation
Symbolism
Repetition
Pathos
23. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Indirect
Oxymoron
Conflict
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
24. Make a blueprint of
Falling action
Simile
Draft
Stanza
25. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Setting
Antagonist
Soliloquy
Third person
26. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Plagiarism
Scene
Tragedy
Refrain
27. Showing little if any change
Alliteration
Draft
Inference
Static
28. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Cross - curricular
Mood
Syntax
Hero (tragic)
29. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Falling action
Conflict
Direct
Non -fiction
30. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Phrases
Pathos
Act
Evaluate
31. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Stanza
Exposition
Socratic Seminar
Climax
32. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Third Person Omniscient
Static
Draft
Clause
33. The study of the sources and development of words
Rhyme
Speaker
Etymology
Euphemism
34. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Resolution
Character
Climax
First person
35. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Counterclaim
Indirect
Act
36. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Symbolism
Aside
Textual evidence
Figurative language
37. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Cross - curricular
Tone
Oxymoron
38. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Analyze
Antagonist
Point of View
Draft
39. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
Paraphrase
Claim
Analyze
40. Showing little if any change
Transition
Static
In -text citation
Direct Quotation
41. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Aside
Third person
Transition
First person
42. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Aside
Delineate
Fallacious reasoning
Inference
43. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Draft
Parallel plots
Motivation
Scene
44. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Scene
Resolution
Falling action
Connotation
45. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Direct
Subordinate
Summarize
Clause
46. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Conflict
Parallel Structure
Simile
47. 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.
Socratic Seminar
Symbolism
Internal Conflict
Static
48. 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.
Narrative
Alliteration
Clause
Flashback
49. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Evaluate
Plagiarism
Claim
Stanza
50. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Indirect
Dialogue
Scaffolding
Rhetoric