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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Formal
Personification
Independent
Formal
2. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Falling action
Analyze
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
3. Examine and judge carefully.
Repetition
Draft
Compare and Contrast
Evaluate
4. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Scaffolding
Euphemism
Refrain
Point of View
5. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Stereotype
Simile
Artistic medium
Atmosphere
6. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Connotation
Alliteration
Mood
7. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Falling action
Theme
Inference
Subordinate
8. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Figurative language
Personification
Tone
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
9. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Dialogue
Delineate
Third person
Static
10. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Information
Symbolism
Rhyme
11. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Suspense
Third Person Limited
Euphemism
Rhyme
12. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Etymology
Atmosphere
Exposition
Rhyme
13. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Informative/explanatory text
Artistic medium
Sensory language
Etymology
14. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Conjunctive adverbs
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Independent
Analyze
15. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Hero (tragic)
Clause
Setting
Sensory language
16. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Character
Pacing
Delineate
17. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Narrative
Dialogue
Plagiarism
Atmosphere
18. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Non -fiction
Falling action
Scene
19. Main character in fiction or drama
Rising Action
Protagonist
Third person
Nuances
20. Make a blueprint of
Formal
Simile
Personification
Draft
21. Crediting source within the paper.
Draft
In -text citation
Onomatopoeia
Scaffolding
22. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Personification
Synthesize
Point of View
Indirect
23. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Phrases
Imagery
Artistic medium
Third person
24. 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.
Refrain
Socratic Seminar
Synthesize
Third Person Limited
25. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Artistic medium
Tone
Third Person Limited
Soliloquy
26. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Scaffolding
Compare and Contrast
Artistic medium
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
Fallacious reasoning
Information
Flashback
28. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Parallel Structure
Scene
Inference
29. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Synthesize
Tragedy
Simile
30. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Rhyme
Citation
Character
Point of View
31. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Resolution
Draft
Counterclaim
Rhyme
32. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Direct Quotation
Conjunctive adverbs
Flashback
33. Showing little if any change
Inference
Act
Socratic Seminar
Static
34. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Plagiarism
Scene
Simile
35. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Suspense
Act
Inference
Climax
36. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Inference
Clause
Suspense
Sensory language
37. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
Stanza
Conflict
Imagery
38. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Antagonist
Personification
Indirect
39. Classifying people by their traits.
Figurative language
Independent
Stereotype
Etymology
40. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Compare and Contrast
Dialogue
Phrases
Counterclaim
41. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Plot
Phrases
Onomatopoeia
Tragedy
42. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Fallacious reasoning
Plagiarism
Tone
43. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Rhetoric
Non -fiction
Inference
Cite
44. Give the main point or idea
Clause
Etymology
Cross - curricular
Summarize
45. Crediting source within the paper.
Falling action
In -text citation
Scaffolding
Narrative
46. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Delineate
Objective Summary
Conjunctive adverbs
47. The state of cohering or sticking together
Aside
Informative/explanatory text
Cohesion
Fallacious reasoning
48. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Repetition
Exposition
Plagiarism
Theme
49. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Conjunctive adverbs
Mood
Act
50. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Synthesize
Stereotype
Stanza