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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. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Inference
Pacing
Objective Summary
2. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Paraphrase
Phrases
Point of View
Pathos
3. A hero or heroine is the principle character in a movie - novel - or play - especially one who plays a vital role in plot development and solves the conflict. (A tragic hero is usually a dignified - courageous - and high - ranking character whose eve
Symbolism
Clause
Analyze
Hero (tragic)
4. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Round
Imagery
Suspense
Aside
5. Showing little if any change
Third person
Static
Phrases
Synthesize
6. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Artistic medium
Theme
Atmosphere
Conjunctive adverbs
7. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Subordinate
Protagonist
Parallel Structure
8. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Theme
Antagonist
Alliteration
9. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Artistic medium
Climax
Inference
Direct Quotation
10. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Onomatopoeia
In -text citation
Inference
11. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Falling action
Antagonist
Exposition
Informative/explanatory text
12. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Scene
Cite
Third Person Omniscient
13. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Flashback
Non -fiction
Dialogue
Connotation
14. Tell how things are alike and different
Non -fiction
Character
Compare and Contrast
Clause
15. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Soliloquy
Rhetoric
Simile
16. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Repetition
Phrases
Complex
Speaker
17. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
First person
Euphemism
Clause
Rising Action
18. A hero or heroine is the principle character in a movie - novel - or play - especially one who plays a vital role in plot development and solves the conflict. (A tragic hero is usually a dignified - courageous - and high - ranking character whose eve
Conflict
Socratic Seminar
Protagonist
Hero (tragic)
19. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Motivation
Compare and Contrast
Resolution
Direct
20. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Tragedy
Direct
Symbolism
Atmosphere
21. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Motivation
Mood
In -text citation
Plagiarism
22. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Dialogue
Etymology
Static
23. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Theme
Atmosphere
Static
Complex
24. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Indirect
Simile
Direct Quotation
Speaker
25. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Character
Fiction
Hero (tragic)
26. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
First person
Mood
Oxymoron
Parallel Structure
27. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Falling action
Act
Third Person Omniscient
Conjunctive adverbs
28. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Information
Compare and Contrast
Tone
Alliteration
29. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Symbolism
Imagery
Argument
Plagiarism
30. The study of the sources and development of words
Setting
Rising Action
Euphemism
Etymology
31. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Phrases
Parallel plots
Direct Quotation
Stanza
32. Make a blueprint of
Formal
Flashback
Draft
Climax
33. Describe in vivid detail
Cite
Motivation
Delineate
Draft
34. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Direct Quotation
Counterclaim
Simile
Nuances
35. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Argument
Third Person Omniscient
Conflict
Mood
36. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Round
Alliteration
Narrative
37. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Repetition
Resolution
Nuances
First person
38. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Paraphrase
First person
Antagonist
39. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Artistic medium
Nuances
Subordinate
Compare and Contrast
40. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Act
Objective Summary
Transition
Mood
41. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
Personification
Conflict
42. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Character
Antagonist
Speaker
Symbolism
43. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Inference
Subordinate
Internal Conflict
44. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Sensory language
Theme
Rising Action
Symbolism
45. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Tragedy
Socratic Seminar
Third Person Omniscient
Paraphrase
46. 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.
Indirect
Oxymoron
Cohesion
Synthesize
47. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Objective Summary
Phrases
Falling action
Antagonist
48. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Syntax
Stereotype
Complex
Socratic Seminar
49. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Fallacious reasoning
Suspense
Alliteration
Flat
50. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Information
Protagonist
Complex