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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. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Third Person Omniscient
First person
Mood
2. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Textual evidence
Scene
Scaffolding
Setting
3. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
First person
Cross - curricular
Synthesize
Information
4. The state of cohering or sticking together
Simile
Evaluate
Direct
Cohesion
5. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Plagiarism
Figurative language
Non -fiction
Point of View
6. Assert or affirm strongly
Artistic medium
Suspense
Compare and Contrast
Claim
7. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Informative/explanatory text
Narrative
Clause
Connotation
8. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Transition
Atmosphere
Parallel Structure
Direct Quotation
9. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Connotation
Claim
Compare and Contrast
Character
10. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Hero (tragic)
Analyze
Simile
Nuances
11. 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.
Personification
Internal Conflict
Tone
Suspense
12. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Hero (tragic)
Stereotype
Soliloquy
Complex
13. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Theme
Fallacious reasoning
Pacing
14. The state of cohering or sticking together
Evaluate
Claim
Parallel Structure
Cohesion
15. 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.
Connotation
Informative/explanatory text
Third Person Omniscient
Informative/explanatory text
16. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Symbolism
Fiction
Formal
17. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Objective Summary
Scene
Simile
Plot
18. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Plagiarism
Informative/explanatory text
Citation
19. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Antagonist
Flashback
Parallel plots
Alliteration
20. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Refrain
Repetition
Scaffolding
Internal Conflict
21. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Figurative language
Flashback
Climax
Counterclaim
22. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Character
In -text citation
Internal Conflict
23. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Transition
Phrases
Etymology
24. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Soliloquy
Stereotype
Antagonist
25. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Oxymoron
Cross - curricular
Symbolism
In -text citation
26. 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.
Setting
Aside
Tone
Third person
27. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Direct Quotation
Cross - curricular
Phrases
28. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Point of View
Protagonist
Objective Summary
29. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Tone
Imagery
Transition
Climax
30. 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.
Cross - curricular
Cross - curricular
Clause
Socratic Seminar
31. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Artistic medium
Tragedy
Inference
Round
32. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Transition
Fiction
Third Person Omniscient
Argument
33. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Objective Summary
Refrain
Tragedy
34. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Textual evidence
Act
Cross - curricular
35. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Falling action
Rhetoric
Resolution
36. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Onomatopoeia
Round
Mood
Symbolism
37. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Repetition
Falling action
Argument
Mood
38. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Suspense
Socratic Seminar
Cite
39. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Textual evidence
Antagonist
Formal
Round
40. A system of scaffolds
Citation
Scaffolding
Atmosphere
Cross - curricular
41. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Transition
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Draft
Dialogue
42. 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.
Point of View
Plagiarism
Indirect
Pacing
43. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Refrain
Conflict
First person
Narrative
44. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Setting
Non -fiction
Rising Action
Narrative
45. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Narrative
Citation
Argument
Flat
46. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Direct Quotation
Paraphrase
Resolution
Pathos
47. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Transition
Imagery
Paraphrase
Scene
48. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Scaffolding
Synthesize
Onomatopoeia
Draft
49. Main character in fiction or drama
Imagery
Parallel plots
Protagonist
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
50. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Pacing
Conjunctive adverbs
Transition
In -text citation