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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Examine and judge carefully.






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






3. 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






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






5. Showing little if any change






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






7. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






8. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






9. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






10. Classifying people by their traits.






11. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






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






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






14. Tell how things are alike and different






15. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






17. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






24. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






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






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






27. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






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






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






30. The study of the sources and development of words






31. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






32. Make a blueprint of






33. Describe in vivid detail






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






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






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






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






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






39. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






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






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






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






43. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






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






45. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






46. 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.






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






48. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






49. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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