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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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1. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Static
Sensory language
Citation
Third person
2. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Draft
Transition
Alliteration
Draft
3. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Textual evidence
Subordinate
Stanza
Third Person Omniscient
4. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
In -text citation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Setting
Transition
5. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Fiction
Artistic medium
Citation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
6. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Suspense
Hero (tragic)
Exposition
Cross - curricular
7. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Soliloquy
Stereotype
Internal Conflict
Simile
8. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Scene
Motivation
Direct Quotation
Resolution
9. 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.
Setting
Clause
Informative/explanatory text
Flashback
10. A system of scaffolds
Speaker
Scaffolding
Third person
Paraphrase
11. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Connotation
Draft
Dialogue
Formal
12. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Direct Quotation
Conflict
Complex
Personification
13. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Informative/explanatory text
Pathos
Motivation
14. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Suspense
Soliloquy
Imagery
Atmosphere
15. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Conflict
Citation
Formal
First person
16. Give the main point or idea
Non -fiction
Summarize
Parallel plots
Fallacious reasoning
17. 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.
Narrative
Figurative language
Pacing
Socratic Seminar
18. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Artistic medium
Cite
Refrain
Climax
19. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Falling action
Non -fiction
Refrain
Symbolism
20. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Plagiarism
Information
Textual evidence
Fiction
21. 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.
Clause
Socratic Seminar
Flashback
Narrative
22. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Round
Nuances
Draft
Artistic medium
23. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Protagonist
Artistic medium
Stanza
24. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Draft
Flashback
Suspense
25. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Symbolism
Draft
Fallacious reasoning
Plot
26. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Informative/explanatory text
Independent
Argument
27. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Falling action
In -text citation
Refrain
Rhyme
28. Make a blueprint of
Delineate
Fallacious reasoning
Draft
Objective Summary
29. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Objective Summary
Cite
Oxymoron
Falling action
30. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Plagiarism
Figurative language
Inference
Euphemism
31. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Analyze
Resolution
Personification
Falling action
32. 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.
Aside
Falling action
Syntax
Inference
33. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Etymology
Character
Sensory language
Pathos
34. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Theme
Figurative language
Syntax
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.
Internal Conflict
Nuances
Evaluate
Indirect
36. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Hero (tragic)
Protagonist
First person
Plot
37. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Cite
Non -fiction
Onomatopoeia
Scene
38. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Informative/explanatory text
Third Person Limited
Personification
Figurative language
39. Make a blueprint of
Onomatopoeia
Draft
Argument
Cite
40. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Setting
Mood
Euphemism
Repetition
41. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Narrative
Evaluate
Oxymoron
Subordinate
42. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Non -fiction
Euphemism
Information
Imagery
43. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Character
Rising Action
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Suspense
44. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Soliloquy
Third Person Limited
Parallel Structure
Cross - curricular
45. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Non -fiction
Objective Summary
Syntax
Summarize
46. Character pitted against protagonist
Cohesion
Antagonist
Fiction
Etymology
47. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Setting
Parallel Structure
Citation
Narrative
48. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Personification
Setting
Plot
49. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Conflict
Socratic Seminar
Phrases
50. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Stanza
Refrain
Direct
Personification