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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Plot
Syntax
Motivation
2. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Antagonist
Formal
Etymology
Aside
3. A system of scaffolds
Alliteration
Scaffolding
Dialogue
Cite
4. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Conflict
Rhetoric
Non -fiction
Artistic medium
5. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Rhetoric
Point of View
Figurative language
Draft
6. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Pacing
Speaker
Tone
Round
7. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Plot
Etymology
Cross - curricular
Motivation
8. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Information
Conflict
Compare and Contrast
Exposition
9. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Theme
Plot
Textual evidence
10. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Repetition
Phrases
Rhetoric
11. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Textual evidence
Fiction
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Parallel plots
12. Crediting source within the paper.
Clause
Pathos
In -text citation
Dialogue
13. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Rhyme
Cohesion
Simile
Exposition
14. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Synthesize
Speaker
Inference
Euphemism
15. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Third person
Objective Summary
Complex
Direct
16. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Draft
Synthesize
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Scene
17. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Fiction
Atmosphere
Pacing
Fallacious reasoning
18. 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.
Climax
Imagery
Plagiarism
Socratic Seminar
19. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Plot
Simile
Theme
Stereotype
20. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Euphemism
Artistic medium
Flashback
21. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Pacing
Information
Sensory language
Cite
22. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Draft
Objective Summary
Symbolism
23. The study of the sources and development of words
Textual evidence
Complex
Etymology
Motivation
24. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Climax
Evaluate
Conjunctive adverbs
Syntax
25. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Indirect
Parallel plots
Oxymoron
In -text citation
26. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Information
Falling action
Third person
Fallacious reasoning
27. 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.
Sensory language
Third Person Omniscient
Aside
Paraphrase
28. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Artistic medium
Hero (tragic)
Citation
29. Classifying people by their traits.
Direct
Fallacious reasoning
Delineate
Stereotype
30. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Rhetoric
Exposition
Conjunctive adverbs
Direct
31. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Tragedy
Act
Rhyme
32. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Indirect
Subordinate
Transition
Nuances
33. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Pacing
Narrative
Objective Summary
Draft
34. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Phrases
Compare and Contrast
Subordinate
Plagiarism
35. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Scene
Pathos
Internal Conflict
36. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Flat
Fiction
Repetition
Informative/explanatory text
37. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Point of View
Argument
Personification
Conflict
38. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Syntax
Onomatopoeia
Internal Conflict
Direct Quotation
39. Give the main point or idea
Subordinate
Summarize
Personification
Inference
40. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Oxymoron
Pathos
Citation
Paraphrase
41. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Falling action
Climax
Soliloquy
Sensory language
42. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Complex
Independent
Plot
43. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Mood
Climax
Oxymoron
Indirect
44. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Draft
Protagonist
Paraphrase
Personification
45. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Setting
Informative/explanatory text
Indirect
Artistic medium
46. 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.
Indirect
In -text citation
Syntax
Round
47. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Alliteration
Imagery
Round
Paraphrase
48. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Antagonist
Independent
Plagiarism
First person
49. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Cohesion
Tone
Static
50. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Personification
Mood
Artistic medium
Informative/explanatory text