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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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english
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1. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Scaffolding
Sensory language
Tone
In -text citation
2. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Soliloquy
Refrain
Cross - curricular
3. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Third Person Limited
Point of View
Inference
Parallel plots
4. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Internal Conflict
Conjunctive adverbs
Objective Summary
Draft
5. Main character in fiction or drama
Fallacious reasoning
First person
Protagonist
Motivation
6. 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.
Flashback
Artistic medium
Citation
Inference
7. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Euphemism
Narrative
Theme
8. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Falling action
Soliloquy
Argument
Pacing
9. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Cohesion
Rhetoric
Inference
10. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Flashback
Compare and Contrast
Evaluate
11. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Third person
Tone
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Suspense
12. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Informative/explanatory text
Syntax
Nuances
Rhetoric
13. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Fallacious reasoning
Independent
Flat
14. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Hero (tragic)
Stanza
Tragedy
Third Person Omniscient
15. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Antagonist
Soliloquy
Aside
Clause
16. Crediting source within the paper.
Stanza
In -text citation
Third Person Limited
Antagonist
17. To examine carefully; study closely
Objective Summary
Suspense
Summarize
Analyze
18. Make a blueprint of
Scene
Character
Draft
Euphemism
19. Examine and judge carefully.
Parallel Structure
Evaluate
Complex
Symbolism
20. To examine carefully; study closely
Oxymoron
Pathos
Third Person Limited
Analyze
21. The state of cohering or sticking together
Sensory language
Cohesion
Draft
Act
22. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Transition
Rhyme
Complex
Cross - curricular
23. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Cross - curricular
Tragedy
Climax
Evaluate
24. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Theme
Objective Summary
Independent
Scene
25. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Clause
Refrain
Falling action
Socratic Seminar
26. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Parallel plots
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Artistic medium
27. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Flat
Motivation
Protagonist
Stanza
28. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Plagiarism
Information
Transition
Resolution
29. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
Rhyme
First person
Mood
30. Character pitted against protagonist
Hero (tragic)
Evaluate
Antagonist
Formal
31. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Nuances
Soliloquy
Third Person Limited
Parallel plots
32. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Etymology
Flat
Aside
Formal
33. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Fallacious reasoning
Flat
Tragedy
34. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Internal Conflict
Compare and Contrast
Scene
Informative/explanatory text
35. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Conflict
Stanza
Informative/explanatory text
Theme
36. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Connotation
Compare and Contrast
Round
Draft
37. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Conjunctive adverbs
Refrain
Protagonist
Onomatopoeia
38. Showing little if any change
Draft
Fallacious reasoning
Cross - curricular
Static
39. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Speaker
Non -fiction
Symbolism
Information
40. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Cohesion
Motivation
Imagery
Conflict
41. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Direct Quotation
Nuances
Parallel plots
Argument
42. Showing little if any change
Stereotype
Citation
Static
Euphemism
43. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Indirect
Setting
Speaker
44. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Symbolism
Compare and Contrast
Summarize
Inference
45. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Rising Action
Symbolism
Draft
Motivation
46. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Claim
Scaffolding
Symbolism
47. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Symbolism
Conflict
Direct Quotation
Delineate
48. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Climax
Direct
Pacing
Narrative
49. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Paraphrase
Plagiarism
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Independent
50. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Plagiarism
Pathos
Falling action
Soliloquy
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