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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Cohesion
Sensory language
Speaker
Draft
2. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Scaffolding
Suspense
Parallel plots
Internal Conflict
3. 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.
Oxymoron
Socratic Seminar
Formal
Rising Action
4. 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.
Socratic Seminar
Fallacious reasoning
Counterclaim
Conflict
5. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Analyze
Formal
Draft
Tone
6. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Transition
Resolution
Scene
7. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Claim
Cite
Clause
Analyze
8. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Round
Act
Simile
Narrative
9. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Draft
Dialogue
Resolution
Sensory language
10. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Claim
Euphemism
Flashback
Antagonist
11. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Parallel Structure
Fallacious reasoning
Rhyme
Conjunctive adverbs
12. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Rhetoric
Theme
Oxymoron
Dialogue
13. Crediting source within the paper.
Narrative
In -text citation
Tone
Phrases
14. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Informative/explanatory text
Pacing
Direct Quotation
15. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Rising Action
Mood
Plot
Flat
16. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Climax
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Antagonist
Exposition
17. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Nuances
Personification
Motivation
Fallacious reasoning
18. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Refrain
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Internal Conflict
19. Tell how things are alike and different
Aside
Compare and Contrast
Exposition
Scaffolding
20. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Etymology
Symbolism
Hero (tragic)
Simile
21. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Speaker
Setting
Exposition
Compare and Contrast
22. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Paraphrase
Third Person Limited
Pacing
Subordinate
23. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Third person
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Synthesize
24. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Rhetoric
Alliteration
Synthesize
25. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Rhyme
Point of View
Conjunctive adverbs
Climax
26. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Flashback
Parallel Structure
Summarize
Symbolism
27. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Parallel Structure
Theme
Counterclaim
28. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Pacing
Stanza
Characterization (indirect and direct)
29. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Informative/explanatory text
Non -fiction
Aside
Falling action
30. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Tone
Plagiarism
Plot
Information
31. Character pitted against protagonist
Cohesion
Flat
Climax
Antagonist
32. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Conflict
Flat
Repetition
First person
33. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Compare and Contrast
Delineate
Character
34. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Textual evidence
Formal
Alliteration
35. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Aside
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Pathos
Act
36. 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.
Climax
Objective Summary
Socratic Seminar
Flashback
37. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Figurative language
Delineate
Pacing
Flashback
38. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Hero (tragic)
Setting
Parallel plots
39. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Delineate
Euphemism
Pacing
Tone
40. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Formal
First person
Flat
Parallel plots
41. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Stanza
Socratic Seminar
Soliloquy
Evaluate
42. A convention in drama whereby a character on stage addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling that is presumed inaudible to any other character on stage.
Aside
Clause
Third Person Limited
Falling action
43. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Draft
Pathos
Character
Inference
44. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Protagonist
Draft
Connotation
Euphemism
45. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Objective Summary
Exposition
Scaffolding
Citation
46. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Symbolism
Conflict
Climax
Synthesize
47. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
In -text citation
Third Person Limited
Theme
Setting
48. A convention in drama whereby a character on stage addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling that is presumed inaudible to any other character on stage.
Parallel plots
Protagonist
Aside
Direct Quotation
49. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Evaluate
Conjunctive adverbs
Inference
Antagonist
50. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Symbolism
Character
Rhetoric
Characterization (indirect and direct)