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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. Examine and judge carefully.






3. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






11. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






12. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






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






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






15. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






16. Using language effectively to please or persuade






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






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






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






20. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






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






22. 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.






23. Showing little if any change






24. 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.






25. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






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






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






28. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. To examine carefully; study closely






34. Examine and judge carefully.






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






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






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






38. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






39. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






40. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






41. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






42. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






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






44. Using language effectively to please or persuade






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






46. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






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






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






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






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







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