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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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1. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Indirect
Mood
Rhetoric
Non -fiction
2. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Personification
Third Person Limited
Figurative language
3. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Objective Summary
Mood
Euphemism
Oxymoron
4. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Synthesize
Exposition
Pacing
Atmosphere
5. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Non -fiction
Rhetoric
Transition
In -text citation
6. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Theme
Plagiarism
Internal Conflict
7. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
First person
Subordinate
Nuances
Scaffolding
8. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
First person
Argument
Phrases
In -text citation
9. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Pathos
Rhetoric
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Act
10. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Falling action
Objective Summary
Simile
Cite
11. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Scene
Personification
Euphemism
Parallel Structure
12. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Claim
Cross - curricular
Symbolism
Point of View
13. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Flat
Clause
Transition
Socratic Seminar
14. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Compare and Contrast
Atmosphere
Claim
15. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Stanza
Clause
Dialogue
Non -fiction
16. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Argument
Etymology
Round
Direct Quotation
17. Tell how things are alike and different
Compare and Contrast
Refrain
Third person
Indirect
18. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Speaker
Direct Quotation
Socratic Seminar
Parallel Structure
19. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Stanza
Dialogue
Third Person Limited
20. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Draft
Pathos
Plot
Evaluate
21. 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.
Scene
Scene
Repetition
Socratic Seminar
22. Crediting source within the paper.
Information
In -text citation
Soliloquy
Narrative
23. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Repetition
Character
Rhetoric
Narrative
24. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Refrain
Onomatopoeia
Transition
Flat
25. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
First person
Nuances
Rhetoric
Personification
26. 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
Third Person Limited
Soliloquy
Direct Quotation
Hero (tragic)
27. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Draft
Artistic medium
Counterclaim
28. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Phrases
Narrative
Fallacious reasoning
Delineate
29. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Symbolism
Independent
Parallel plots
Complex
30. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Plot
Simile
Stereotype
31. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Conflict
Inference
Parallel Structure
Parallel plots
32. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Fiction
Suspense
Objective Summary
Round
33. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Resolution
Aside
Rhyme
Sensory language
34. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Euphemism
Evaluate
Speaker
Personification
35. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Pathos
Subordinate
Dialogue
Sensory language
36. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
First person
Inference
Plagiarism
Draft
37. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Round
Claim
Symbolism
Setting
38. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Delineate
Oxymoron
Protagonist
Symbolism
39. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Climax
Static
Fiction
Act
40. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Rising Action
Informative/explanatory text
Falling action
Draft
41. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Evaluate
Cross - curricular
Sensory language
Theme
42. Showing little if any change
Point of View
Static
Pacing
Speaker
43. Assert or affirm strongly
Draft
Claim
Flat
Sensory language
44. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Repetition
Summarize
Setting
Fiction
45. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Theme
Fallacious reasoning
Plot
Textual evidence
46. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
In -text citation
Clause
Inference
Claim
47. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Flashback
Motivation
Counterclaim
Simile
48. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Delineate
Draft
Scene
Figurative language
49. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Round
Atmosphere
Analyze
50. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Onomatopoeia
Third Person Limited
Figurative language
Repetition