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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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1. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Fallacious reasoning
Suspense
Hero (tragic)
Scaffolding
2. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Etymology
Motivation
Scaffolding
3. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Imagery
Simile
Paraphrase
Exposition
4. The state of cohering or sticking together
Onomatopoeia
Character
Cohesion
Fallacious reasoning
5. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Falling action
Connotation
Argument
6. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Motivation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Fiction
Aside
7. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Suspense
Alliteration
Information
Conflict
8. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
First person
Plagiarism
Conflict
Delineate
9. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Motivation
Cohesion
Plagiarism
10. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Rising Action
Plagiarism
Independent
Parallel plots
11. A system of scaffolds
Motivation
Direct
Character
Scaffolding
12. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Parallel plots
Cite
Summarize
Citation
13. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Third Person Omniscient
Draft
Plot
Direct
14. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Parallel plots
Motivation
Indirect
Syntax
15. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Paraphrase
Simile
Repetition
Third person
16. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Direct
Analyze
Suspense
17. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Scaffolding
Character
Draft
Fallacious reasoning
18. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Act
Direct
Synthesize
Symbolism
19. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
In -text citation
Suspense
Etymology
Formal
20. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Cite
Setting
Parallel plots
Conflict
21. Examine and judge carefully.
Delineate
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Evaluate
Imagery
22. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Dialogue
Scaffolding
Direct Quotation
Parallel Structure
23. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Motivation
In -text citation
Tone
Personification
24. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Hero (tragic)
Dialogue
Citation
25. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Exposition
Setting
Simile
Third Person Omniscient
26. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Mood
Information
Textual evidence
Climax
27. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Parallel plots
First person
Antagonist
28. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Mood
Inference
Imagery
Repetition
29. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Hero (tragic)
Soliloquy
Independent
30. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Tone
Plagiarism
Refrain
Characterization (indirect and direct)
31. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Flat
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Exposition
Draft
32. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
In -text citation
Claim
Stereotype
33. To examine carefully; study closely
Draft
Act
Analyze
Formal
34. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Alliteration
Stereotype
Artistic medium
35. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Falling action
Non -fiction
Resolution
Flashback
36. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Stanza
Subordinate
Tragedy
Aside
37. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Protagonist
Indirect
Alliteration
38. The state of cohering or sticking together
Draft
Euphemism
Draft
Cohesion
39. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Phrases
Oxymoron
Parallel Structure
Cross - curricular
40. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Citation
Direct Quotation
Direct
Atmosphere
41. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Suspense
Dialogue
Synthesize
Antagonist
42. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Artistic medium
Mood
Point of View
Clause
43. 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.
Cite
Claim
Flashback
Cite
44. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Stanza
Figurative language
Subordinate
Synthesize
45. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Tone
Tragedy
Summarize
46. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Act
Fallacious reasoning
In -text citation
Nuances
47. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Narrative
Exposition
Internal Conflict
Symbolism
48. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Antagonist
Onomatopoeia
Clause
Rhyme
49. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Syntax
Pacing
Transition
Third Person Limited
50. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Protagonist
Hero (tragic)
Subordinate
Setting