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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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1. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Flashback
Artistic medium
Dialogue
Speaker
2. Make a blueprint of
Protagonist
Independent
Fallacious reasoning
Draft
3. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
Fallacious reasoning
Tragedy
Pathos
4. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Onomatopoeia
Fallacious reasoning
Parallel plots
Direct Quotation
5. Tell how things are alike and different
Figurative language
Analyze
In -text citation
Compare and Contrast
6. Assert or affirm strongly
Flashback
Protagonist
Claim
Compare and Contrast
7. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Argument
Falling action
Symbolism
Paraphrase
8. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Socratic Seminar
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Independent
Indirect
9. 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.
Conflict
Setting
Third Person Omniscient
Rhyme
10. To examine carefully; study closely
Pacing
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Falling action
Analyze
11. 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.
Round
Antagonist
Scene
Indirect
12. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Symbolism
Socratic Seminar
Figurative language
Conflict
13. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Parallel plots
Compare and Contrast
Plot
Complex
14. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Round
Conjunctive adverbs
Scene
First person
15. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Refrain
Phrases
First person
Connotation
16. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Plot
Direct
First person
17. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Information
Plagiarism
Euphemism
Evaluate
18. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Textual evidence
Onomatopoeia
Connotation
19. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Rhyme
Point of View
Mood
Sensory language
20. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Cohesion
Figurative language
Symbolism
Motivation
21. An idea that is implied or suggested
Speaker
Connotation
Suspense
Atmosphere
22. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Internal Conflict
Conflict
Figurative language
23. 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.
Formal
Third Person Omniscient
Imagery
Syntax
24. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Repetition
Symbolism
Flat
Rhyme
25. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Onomatopoeia
Third Person Omniscient
Aside
26. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Atmosphere
Informative/explanatory text
Synthesize
Third person
27. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Pathos
Conjunctive adverbs
Imagery
Draft
28. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Protagonist
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Draft
Textual evidence
29. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Onomatopoeia
Socratic Seminar
Aside
30. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Narrative
Cohesion
Draft
Third person
31. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Point of View
Complex
Textual evidence
32. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Figurative language
Aside
Dialogue
Informative/explanatory text
33. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Act
Parallel Structure
Act
34. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Cite
Stanza
Exposition
Pacing
35. 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.
Argument
Indirect
Imagery
Internal Conflict
36. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Onomatopoeia
Evaluate
Parallel Structure
Pacing
37. Crediting source within the paper.
Setting
In -text citation
Suspense
Summarize
38. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Narrative
Scaffolding
Inference
Euphemism
39. Character pitted against protagonist
Analyze
Information
Antagonist
Compare and Contrast
40. Make a blueprint of
Compare and Contrast
Inference
Draft
Exposition
41. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Independent
Argument
Complex
42. Character pitted against protagonist
Subordinate
Antagonist
Repetition
Plot
43. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Exposition
Clause
Artistic medium
44. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Alliteration
Scaffolding
Plagiarism
45. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Simile
Alliteration
Tone
Atmosphere
46. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tone
Tragedy
Connotation
Alliteration
47. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Compare and Contrast
Sensory language
Plagiarism
Tone
48. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Conjunctive adverbs
Plot
Atmosphere
Informative/explanatory text
49. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Claim
Transition
Alliteration
Tone
50. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Summarize
Synthesize
Parallel plots
Claim