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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Artistic medium
Exposition
Stereotype
Socratic Seminar
2. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Compare and Contrast
Paraphrase
Pacing
Parallel Structure
3. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Evaluate
Stanza
Fiction
Nuances
4. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Aside
Direct Quotation
Tone
Figurative language
5. To examine carefully; study closely
Motivation
Fiction
Analyze
Pacing
6. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Exposition
Syntax
Non -fiction
Textual evidence
7. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Dialogue
Personification
Objective Summary
Flashback
8. An idea that is implied or suggested
Tragedy
Antagonist
Connotation
Synthesize
9. To examine carefully; study closely
Independent
Internal Conflict
Analyze
Refrain
10. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Artistic medium
Rising Action
Information
Claim
11. Examine and judge carefully.
Information
Speaker
Nuances
Evaluate
12. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Aside
Sensory language
Synthesize
Exposition
13. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Internal Conflict
Exposition
Soliloquy
First person
14. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Transition
Exposition
Formal
Inference
15. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Atmosphere
Evaluate
Direct Quotation
Cite
16. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Static
Oxymoron
Citation
Direct
17. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Cite
Textual evidence
Nuances
Parallel plots
18. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Hero (tragic)
Symbolism
Setting
19. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Rising Action
Rhetoric
Independent
20. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Flashback
Suspense
Atmosphere
21. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Flat
Complex
Scaffolding
Sensory language
22. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Theme
Setting
Act
Protagonist
23. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Mood
Non -fiction
Argument
Fiction
24. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Soliloquy
Narrative
Compare and Contrast
Evaluate
25. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Textual evidence
Inference
Imagery
Cite
26. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Flat
Third Person Limited
Non -fiction
Draft
27. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Draft
Connotation
Protagonist
28. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Paraphrase
Claim
Counterclaim
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
29. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Resolution
Character
Connotation
Internal Conflict
30. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Textual evidence
31. Describe in vivid detail
Climax
Delineate
Tone
Rising Action
32. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Evaluate
Scaffolding
Flashback
33. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Direct Quotation
Scaffolding
Argument
34. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Conjunctive adverbs
Citation
First person
Symbolism
35. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Exposition
Argument
Soliloquy
Paraphrase
36. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Euphemism
Onomatopoeia
Phrases
Tragedy
37. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Figurative language
Nuances
Complex
Independent
38. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Conflict
Oxymoron
Rising Action
Third Person Limited
39. The study of the sources and development of words
Flat
Tragedy
Etymology
Informative/explanatory text
40. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Character
Alliteration
Symbolism
Scene
41. 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.
Round
Internal Conflict
Scene
Imagery
42. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Third Person Omniscient
Pathos
Speaker
Scene
43. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Cohesion
Nuances
Rhyme
Setting
44. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Claim
Formal
Subordinate
Inference
45. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Syntax
Parallel Structure
Plagiarism
Objective Summary
46. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Summarize
Analyze
Mood
Complex
47. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Syntax
Simile
Round
Stanza
48. 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
Theme
Fiction
Hero (tragic)
Sensory language
49. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Argument
Tragedy
Cite
Theme
50. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Falling action
Transition
Personification
Complex