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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. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Atmosphere
Parallel plots
Imagery
Falling action
2. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Parallel Structure
Atmosphere
Aside
3. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Theme
Dialogue
Independent
Conjunctive adverbs
4. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Protagonist
Objective Summary
Connotation
Rhyme
5. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Flashback
Analyze
Resolution
Motivation
6. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Independent
Euphemism
Phrases
Third person
7. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Evaluate
Onomatopoeia
Argument
8. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Motivation
Falling action
Informative/explanatory text
Imagery
9. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Euphemism
Textual evidence
Simile
10. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Round
Etymology
Stanza
Third person
11. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Onomatopoeia
Non -fiction
Informative/explanatory text
12. 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
Hero (tragic)
Indirect
Clause
In -text citation
13. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Repetition
Synthesize
Direct
Argument
14. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Artistic medium
Exposition
Textual evidence
Paraphrase
15. 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.
Antagonist
Flashback
Soliloquy
Rising Action
16. Describe in vivid detail
Sensory language
Delineate
In -text citation
Synthesize
17. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Climax
Stanza
Delineate
Argument
18. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Figurative language
Formal
Textual evidence
Round
19. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Figurative language
Symbolism
Personification
20. 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.
Dialogue
Socratic Seminar
Character
Plagiarism
21. Showing little if any change
Flat
Static
Soliloquy
Synthesize
22. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Syntax
Third person
Transition
23. 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.
Non -fiction
In -text citation
Third Person Omniscient
Soliloquy
24. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Suspense
Cross - curricular
Setting
25. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Internal Conflict
Complex
Pacing
Stanza
26. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Claim
Scene
Summarize
Transition
27. To examine carefully; study closely
Climax
Analyze
Fiction
Conflict
28. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Inference
Static
Climax
29. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Formal
Suspense
Stanza
Objective Summary
30. Tell how things are alike and different
Etymology
Pathos
Simile
Compare and Contrast
31. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Independent
Alliteration
Information
Draft
32. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Delineate
Atmosphere
Fallacious reasoning
Parallel plots
33. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Rhyme
Imagery
Independent
Resolution
34. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Plot
Fiction
Character
Narrative
35. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Rhetoric
Synthesize
Figurative language
Fallacious reasoning
36. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Parallel Structure
Falling action
Act
37. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Clause
Soliloquy
Protagonist
38. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Tone
Character
Static
Dialogue
39. Character pitted against protagonist
Hero (tragic)
Information
Third person
Antagonist
40. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Antagonist
Act
Objective Summary
41. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
First person
Artistic medium
Rhetoric
42. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Refrain
Parallel Structure
Analyze
Personification
43. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Setting
Symbolism
Parallel plots
Exposition
44. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Summarize
Citation
Exposition
Paraphrase
45. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Objective Summary
Static
Simile
46. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Falling action
Plot
Analyze
47. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Simile
Cross - curricular
Independent
48. Give the main point or idea
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Summarize
Fiction
Inference
49. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Flashback
Information
Plagiarism
50. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Stereotype
Direct Quotation
Indirect