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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Classifying people by their traits.






2. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






3. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






4. 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.






5. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






6. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






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






9. Give the main point or idea






10. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






11. Examine and judge carefully.






12. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






13. Describe in vivid detail






14. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






16. 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.






17. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






18. 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.






19. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






20. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






21. Character pitted against protagonist






22. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






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






24. Describe in vivid detail






25. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






26. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






27. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






29. Examine and judge carefully.






30. Classifying people by their traits.






31. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






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






33. 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.






34. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






36. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






37. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






38. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






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






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






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






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






43. Tell how things are alike and different






44. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.






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






46. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






47. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






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






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






50. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.







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