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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. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Repetition
Direct
Analyze
Direct Quotation
2. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Protagonist
Speaker
Onomatopoeia
Plot
3. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Fiction
Rhetoric
Complex
Theme
4. 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.
Sensory language
Flashback
First person
Resolution
5. 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
Falling action
Conflict
Flashback
6. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Onomatopoeia
Pacing
Static
Fiction
7. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Direct
Atmosphere
Nuances
Fallacious reasoning
8. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Fiction
Pacing
Direct
Hero (tragic)
9. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Tragedy
Point of View
Personification
Pathos
10. Character pitted against protagonist
Scene
Conflict
Antagonist
Internal Conflict
11. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Speaker
Imagery
Stereotype
Paraphrase
12. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Narrative
Formal
Simile
Mood
13. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Conjunctive adverbs
Scene
Scene
Third person
14. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Plagiarism
Non -fiction
Subordinate
15. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Evaluate
Exposition
Clause
Mood
16. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Plagiarism
Rhetoric
Non -fiction
Phrases
17. Assert or affirm strongly
Oxymoron
Pathos
Claim
Socratic Seminar
18. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Parallel Structure
Information
Scene
Mood
19. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Conflict
Parallel plots
Independent
Transition
20. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Third Person Limited
Oxymoron
Tone
Personification
21. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Symbolism
Plot
Complex
Direct Quotation
22. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Third Person Limited
Rising Action
Cite
Sensory language
23. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Resolution
Antagonist
Protagonist
24. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Aside
Direct
Personification
25. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Formal
Direct Quotation
Etymology
Parallel plots
26. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Connotation
Stanza
Synthesize
Tone
27. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Argument
Inference
Cross - curricular
28. Examine and judge carefully.
Tragedy
Evaluate
Compare and Contrast
Repetition
29. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Stereotype
Sensory language
Figurative language
Phrases
30. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Cite
First person
Information
Stereotype
31. Showing little if any change
Syntax
Static
Euphemism
Tone
32. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Third Person Limited
Tragedy
Dialogue
Cross - curricular
33. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Independent
Motivation
Rhetoric
Rising Action
34. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Cite
Non -fiction
Protagonist
Suspense
35. To examine carefully; study closely
Flashback
Analyze
First person
Aside
36. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Informative/explanatory text
Stanza
Transition
Direct Quotation
37. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Subordinate
Flashback
Cite
Repetition
38. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Hero (tragic)
Summarize
Alliteration
39. Make a blueprint of
Pacing
Draft
Repetition
Etymology
40. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Climax
Imagery
Pathos
Personification
41. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Direct Quotation
Informative/explanatory text
Stanza
Fallacious reasoning
42. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Synthesize
Third Person Limited
Subordinate
43. An idea that is implied or suggested
Independent
Third person
Cross - curricular
Connotation
44. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Synthesize
Setting
Flat
Artistic medium
45. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Etymology
Parallel plots
Alliteration
46. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Subordinate
Tone
Alliteration
Formal
47. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Third Person Omniscient
Imagery
Hero (tragic)
Draft
48. 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.
Atmosphere
Socratic Seminar
Cite
Synthesize
49. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Dialogue
Soliloquy
Citation
50. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Narrative
Indirect