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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. 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.






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






4. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






11. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






12. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






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






14. The state of cohering or sticking together






15. Using language effectively to please or persuade






16. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






17. Describe in vivid detail






18. Classifying people by their traits.






19. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






20. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






21. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






22. Assert or affirm strongly






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






24. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






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






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






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






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






29. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






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






33. The study of the sources and development of words






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






35. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






36. Testimony that is presented word for word.






37. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






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






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






40. Main character in fiction or drama






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






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






43. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






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






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






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






47. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






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






49. 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.






50. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.