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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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1. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
In -text citation
Informative/explanatory text
Motivation
2. 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
Antagonist
Transition
Hero (tragic)
Formal
3. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Independent
Third Person Limited
Narrative
Figurative language
4. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Static
Falling action
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Delineate
5. 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.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Act
Socratic Seminar
Stanza
6. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Euphemism
Evaluate
Parallel Structure
Soliloquy
7. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Aside
Parallel Structure
Setting
8. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Resolution
Tragedy
Analyze
Internal Conflict
9. Describe in vivid detail
Inference
Delineate
Socratic Seminar
Tragedy
10. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Suspense
Paraphrase
Aside
Speaker
11. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Repetition
Conflict
Direct
Rising Action
12. 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.
Subordinate
Indirect
Connotation
Flashback
13. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Narrative
Direct
Third Person Limited
Synthesize
14. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Oxymoron
Protagonist
Alliteration
15. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
Alliteration
Complex
16. The state of cohering or sticking together
Alliteration
Direct
Imagery
Cohesion
17. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Rising Action
Resolution
Independent
Plot
18. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Compare and Contrast
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Act
Direct Quotation
19. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Protagonist
Draft
Inference
Textual evidence
20. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Artistic medium
Parallel plots
Round
Counterclaim
21. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Atmosphere
Oxymoron
Parallel plots
22. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Onomatopoeia
Speaker
Static
Exposition
23. Assert or affirm strongly
Antagonist
In -text citation
Narrative
Claim
24. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Pathos
Repetition
Conjunctive adverbs
Counterclaim
25. The study of the sources and development of words
Dialogue
Plagiarism
Etymology
Symbolism
26. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Citation
Theme
Draft
Phrases
27. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Claim
Resolution
Delineate
28. 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.
Suspense
Flashback
Aside
Personification
29. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Exposition
Plagiarism
Information
Syntax
30. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Aside
Counterclaim
Formal
31. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Delineate
Sensory language
Third Person Limited
Summarize
32. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Non -fiction
Atmosphere
Climax
Pacing
33. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Artistic medium
Conjunctive adverbs
Delineate
34. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Direct Quotation
Delineate
Nuances
Textual evidence
35. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Connotation
Pathos
Artistic medium
Cite
36. To examine carefully; study closely
Narrative
Analyze
Speaker
Falling action
37. 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.
Counterclaim
First person
Aside
Informative/explanatory text
38. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Exposition
Nuances
Onomatopoeia
Information
39. Character pitted against protagonist
Symbolism
Static
Textual evidence
Antagonist
40. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Socratic Seminar
Conflict
Stanza
41. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Third Person Omniscient
Artistic medium
Stanza
Socratic Seminar
42. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Alliteration
Connotation
Theme
Round
43. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Protagonist
Inference
Clause
Cross - curricular
44. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Cohesion
Third person
45. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Personification
Etymology
Complex
Rhyme
46. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
In -text citation
Rising Action
Fallacious reasoning
Pacing
47. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Third Person Omniscient
Narrative
Rising Action
In -text citation
48. 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.
Artistic medium
Indirect
Symbolism
Personification
49. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Clause
Draft
Dialogue
Third person
50. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Flashback
Dialogue
Phrases
Third person