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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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Subjects
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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. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Third Person Omniscient
Draft
Scene
Aside
2. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Informative/explanatory text
Climax
Third Person Limited
3. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Counterclaim
Informative/explanatory text
Transition
4. Crediting source within the paper.
Textual evidence
Onomatopoeia
In -text citation
Internal Conflict
5. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Objective Summary
Parallel plots
Direct Quotation
Synthesize
6. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Connotation
Plagiarism
Cite
Soliloquy
7. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Rising Action
Complex
Flat
8. Tell how things are alike and different
Compare and Contrast
Flat
Third Person Omniscient
Nuances
9. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Artistic medium
Counterclaim
Stanza
Pacing
10. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Indirect
Pacing
Tragedy
Indirect
11. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Static
Climax
Onomatopoeia
Independent
12. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Speaker
Character
Informative/explanatory text
Counterclaim
13. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Oxymoron
Falling action
Direct Quotation
Independent
14. A system of scaffolds
Point of View
Dialogue
Scaffolding
Connotation
15. To examine carefully; study closely
Round
Plot
Analyze
Round
16. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Argument
Onomatopoeia
Dialogue
Narrative
17. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Internal Conflict
Point of View
Conflict
Symbolism
18. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
In -text citation
Falling action
Fallacious reasoning
Tragedy
19. 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.
Cite
Aside
Euphemism
Direct Quotation
20. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Transition
Symbolism
Third Person Limited
Fiction
21. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Etymology
Mood
Figurative language
22. Showing little if any change
Static
Rising Action
Plagiarism
Fallacious reasoning
23. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Rising Action
Static
Third Person Limited
Third person
24. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Symbolism
Draft
Alliteration
Speaker
25. Classifying people by their traits.
Non -fiction
Direct
Tragedy
Stereotype
26. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Objective Summary
Fallacious reasoning
Tragedy
27. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Direct
Textual evidence
Conjunctive adverbs
28. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Direct
Exposition
Paraphrase
Soliloquy
29. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Claim
Connotation
Draft
Tone
30. Make a blueprint of
Non -fiction
Information
Draft
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
31. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Fallacious reasoning
Symbolism
Round
Stanza
32. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Plagiarism
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
Falling action
33. 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.
Internal Conflict
Non -fiction
Exposition
Flashback
34. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Etymology
Nuances
Internal Conflict
Cross - curricular
35. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Citation
Act
Personification
Rhyme
36. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Artistic medium
Rhetoric
Analyze
37. 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.
Compare and Contrast
Analyze
Argument
Indirect
38. 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.
Dialogue
Complex
Stanza
Third Person Omniscient
39. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Cohesion
Act
Soliloquy
Pacing
40. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Cross - curricular
Information
Nuances
41. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Pathos
Parallel plots
Speaker
42. Showing little if any change
Static
Imagery
Evaluate
Personification
43. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Point of View
Cross - curricular
Rhetoric
44. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Onomatopoeia
Counterclaim
Non -fiction
45. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Objective Summary
Conjunctive adverbs
Socratic Seminar
Draft
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.
Refrain
Stanza
Parallel plots
Indirect
47. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Objective Summary
Independent
Flat
48. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Figurative language
Plagiarism
Fallacious reasoning
Imagery
49. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Syntax
Dialogue
Resolution
50. Crediting source within the paper.
Stanza
In -text citation
Draft
Dialogue