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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. Classifying people by their traits.
Mood
Direct
Stereotype
Transition
2. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Independent
Suspense
Inference
Tone
3. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Third person
Repetition
Subordinate
4. 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.
Conflict
Subordinate
Onomatopoeia
Indirect
5. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Tone
Setting
Figurative language
Rhetoric
6. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Mood
Oxymoron
Cite
Flat
7. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Stanza
Character
Artistic medium
Information
8. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Falling action
Alliteration
Syntax
9. Give the main point or idea
Direct
Formal
Summarize
Internal Conflict
10. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Act
Artistic medium
Onomatopoeia
Third Person Limited
11. Examine and judge carefully.
Third person
Evaluate
Analyze
Delineate
12. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
In -text citation
Non -fiction
Syntax
Plagiarism
13. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Sensory language
Pacing
Sensory language
14. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Round
Paraphrase
Citation
Character
15. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Symbolism
Counterclaim
Static
16. 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.
Rhyme
Symbolism
Socratic Seminar
Non -fiction
17. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Scaffolding
Stereotype
Soliloquy
Plagiarism
18. 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.
Tone
Textual evidence
Refrain
Indirect
19. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Rhyme
Pathos
Syntax
Mood
20. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Summarize
Analyze
Fiction
21. Character pitted against protagonist
Objective Summary
Plot
Antagonist
Rising Action
22. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Sensory language
Resolution
Transition
Pathos
23. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Analyze
Act
Transition
24. Describe in vivid detail
Subordinate
Speaker
Subordinate
Delineate
25. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Cite
Subordinate
Atmosphere
Characterization (indirect and direct)
26. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Third Person Omniscient
Pacing
Argument
Parallel Structure
27. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Claim
Simile
Draft
Tone
28. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Atmosphere
Etymology
Artistic medium
Symbolism
29. Examine and judge carefully.
Synthesize
Repetition
Evaluate
Atmosphere
30. Classifying people by their traits.
Indirect
Refrain
Atmosphere
Stereotype
31. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Subordinate
Repetition
Alliteration
Paraphrase
32. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Imagery
Symbolism
Character
Conflict
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.
Parallel Structure
Hero (tragic)
Static
Flashback
34. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
Etymology
Flashback
Connotation
35. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Paraphrase
Textual evidence
Point of View
Mood
36. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Stanza
Oxymoron
Phrases
Fiction
37. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Cross - curricular
Syntax
Atmosphere
38. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Third Person Limited
Personification
Etymology
Synthesize
39. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Third Person Omniscient
Fiction
Figurative language
40. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Scene
Falling action
Argument
Compare and Contrast
41. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Etymology
Resolution
Synthesize
Scaffolding
42. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Flashback
Figurative language
Objective Summary
43. Tell how things are alike and different
Alliteration
Static
Flat
Compare and Contrast
44. 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.
Internal Conflict
Stereotype
Plagiarism
Theme
45. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Tone
Counterclaim
Scene
46. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Antagonist
Simile
Draft
Fallacious reasoning
47. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Flashback
Hero (tragic)
Third person
In -text citation
48. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Sensory language
Independent
Soliloquy
Phrases
49. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Cross - curricular
Draft
Non -fiction
Antagonist
50. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Symbolism
Complex
Pathos
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