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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






3. 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






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






5. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






6. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






7. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






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






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






10. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






11. Showing little if any change






12. 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.






13. Assert or affirm strongly






14. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






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






16. The state of cohering or sticking together






17. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






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






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






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






23. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






24. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






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






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






27. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






28. 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.






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






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






31. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






32. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






33. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






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






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






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






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






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






39. Lacking stimulating characteristics






40. To examine carefully; study closely






41. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






43. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






44. Tell how things are alike and different






45. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






47. 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






48. Main character in fiction or drama






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






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






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