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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






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






8. 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.






9. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






10. Using language effectively to please or persuade






11. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






12. Examine and judge carefully.






13. Main character in fiction or drama






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






15. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






16. The study of the sources and development of words






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






18. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






19. 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.






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






21. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






22. 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.






23. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. Crediting source within the paper.






30. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






31. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






32. To examine carefully; study closely






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






34. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






35. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






36. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






37. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






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






40. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






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






44. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






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






46. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






47. 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.






48. To examine carefully; study closely






49. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






50. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence