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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






2. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






3. Showing little if any change






4. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






5. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






6. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






7. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






8. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






9. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






10. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






11. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






12. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






13. Make a blueprint of






14. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






15. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






16. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






17. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






18. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






19. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






20. Crediting source within the paper.






21. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






22. 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.






23. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






24. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






25. An idea that is implied or suggested






26. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






27. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






28. Testimony that is presented word for word.






29. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






30. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






31. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






32. Tell how things are alike and different






33. Character pitted against protagonist






34. The state of cohering or sticking together






35. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






36. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






37. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






38. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






39. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






40. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






41. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






42. Assert or affirm strongly






43. Crediting source within the paper.






44. A system of scaffolds






45. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






46. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






47. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






48. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






49. Classifying people by their traits.






50. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else







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