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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






2. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






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






4. The state of cohering or sticking together






5. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






6. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






7. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






8. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






9. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






10. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






11. A system of scaffolds






12. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






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






14. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






15. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






16. Give the main point or idea






17. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






18. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






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






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






21. Examine and judge carefully.






22. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






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






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






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






26. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






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






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






31. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






32. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






33. To examine carefully; study closely






34. Make a blueprint of






35. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






36. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






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






38. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






40. Testimony that is presented word for word.






41. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






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






43. 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.






44. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






45. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






46. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






47. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






48. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






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






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