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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. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Formal
Paraphrase
Clause
2. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Climax
Plot
Scene
Nuances
3. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Artistic medium
Third person
Exposition
Suspense
4. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Delineate
Figurative language
Soliloquy
Aside
5. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Fiction
Inference
Mood
Argument
6. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Compare and Contrast
Act
Rising Action
Direct Quotation
7. Describe in vivid detail
Syntax
Third Person Omniscient
Theme
Delineate
8. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Stereotype
Parallel Structure
Falling action
9. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Stanza
Draft
Symbolism
Oxymoron
10. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Narrative
Tragedy
Stereotype
Protagonist
11. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Etymology
Non -fiction
Parallel plots
Evaluate
12. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Pacing
Pathos
Parallel plots
Textual evidence
13. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Stanza
Rhyme
Textual evidence
Objective Summary
14. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Nuances
Parallel plots
Setting
Symbolism
15. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Euphemism
Summarize
Theme
Tone
16. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Synthesize
Flat
Suspense
Tragedy
17. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Complex
Imagery
Objective Summary
Motivation
18. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Hero (tragic)
Point of View
Protagonist
Claim
19. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Parallel plots
Objective Summary
Counterclaim
Evaluate
20. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Stanza
Oxymoron
Setting
21. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Protagonist
Parallel Structure
Inference
22. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Plagiarism
Aside
Symbolism
Clause
23. Character pitted against protagonist
Climax
Subordinate
Informative/explanatory text
Antagonist
24. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Cite
Information
Figurative language
Connotation
25. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Stanza
Information
Analyze
Stereotype
26. 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.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Onomatopoeia
Aside
Analyze
27. Showing little if any change
First person
Repetition
Formal
Static
28. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Internal Conflict
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Pathos
Parallel Structure
29. 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
Protagonist
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Flat
Hero (tragic)
30. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Refrain
Euphemism
Connotation
Plot
31. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Suspense
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Analyze
Repetition
32. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Fallacious reasoning
Phrases
In -text citation
Nuances
33. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Third Person Omniscient
Onomatopoeia
Cite
34. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Stereotype
Exposition
Conjunctive adverbs
Onomatopoeia
35. 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.
Third person
Flashback
Aside
Characterization (indirect and direct)
36. To examine carefully; study closely
Personification
Analyze
Atmosphere
Third Person Omniscient
37. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Subordinate
Paraphrase
Synthesize
38. The narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening.
Round
Fallacious reasoning
Third Person Omniscient
Symbolism
39. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Syntax
Symbolism
Motivation
Rhyme
40. Examine and judge carefully.
Antagonist
Subordinate
Flat
Evaluate
41. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Cite
Symbolism
Subordinate
Fiction
42. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Formal
Evaluate
Soliloquy
Mood
43. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Formal
Protagonist
Counterclaim
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
44. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Analyze
Conflict
Internal Conflict
Etymology
45. An idea that is implied or suggested
Informative/explanatory text
Delineate
Connotation
Falling action
46. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Counterclaim
Argument
Repetition
Draft
47. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Act
Onomatopoeia
Subordinate
Antagonist
48. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Delineate
Protagonist
Paraphrase
Climax
49. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Compare and Contrast
Hero (tragic)
Character
Point of View
50. Crediting source within the paper.
Subordinate
Character
In -text citation
Resolution