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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Atmosphere
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Refrain
Aside
2. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Rising Action
Exposition
Direct
Dialogue
3. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Cite
Draft
Compare and Contrast
4. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Soliloquy
Figurative language
Tone
Characterization (indirect and direct)
5. 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
Resolution
Tragedy
Figurative language
6. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Parallel plots
Exposition
Summarize
Flat
7. An idea that is implied or suggested
Suspense
Connotation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Counterclaim
8. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Speaker
Sensory language
Synthesize
Symbolism
9. Showing little if any change
Personification
Static
Alliteration
Flat
10. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Scaffolding
Paraphrase
Euphemism
Onomatopoeia
11. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Character
Cross - curricular
Hero (tragic)
Euphemism
12. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Phrases
Non -fiction
Refrain
13. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Setting
Informative/explanatory text
Evaluate
Fiction
14. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Draft
Soliloquy
Synthesize
Paraphrase
15. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Third Person Omniscient
Symbolism
Suspense
Rising Action
16. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Personification
Cross - curricular
Speaker
Theme
17. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Setting
Artistic medium
Suspense
Flashback
18. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
First person
Counterclaim
Act
Dialogue
19. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Motivation
Delineate
Stanza
Repetition
20. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Alliteration
Phrases
Clause
Oxymoron
21. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Artistic medium
Pathos
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Clause
22. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Theme
Fiction
Euphemism
Phrases
23. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Point of View
Round
Figurative language
24. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Character
Climax
Sensory language
Compare and Contrast
25. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Oxymoron
Evaluate
Connotation
26. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Transition
Etymology
Resolution
Third Person Limited
27. 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.
Alliteration
Static
Indirect
Stereotype
28. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Parallel plots
Antagonist
Act
Subordinate
29. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Third Person Omniscient
Climax
Antagonist
Falling action
30. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Internal Conflict
Cite
Point of View
31. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Tone
Rhetoric
Inference
Synthesize
32. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Fiction
Scaffolding
Counterclaim
Compare and Contrast
33. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Suspense
Argument
Subordinate
34. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Analyze
Scaffolding
Third Person Limited
35. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Artistic medium
Theme
Artistic medium
Fiction
36. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Protagonist
Conflict
Rhetoric
Third Person Limited
37. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Tone
Inference
Climax
Mood
38. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Connotation
Sensory language
Tragedy
39. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Symbolism
Flashback
Etymology
40. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Direct Quotation
Evaluate
Aside
41. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Atmosphere
Cite
Static
Stanza
42. The state of cohering or sticking together
First person
Oxymoron
Objective Summary
Cohesion
43. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Resolution
Pacing
Rhetoric
44. An idea that is implied or suggested
Fiction
Delineate
Connotation
Motivation
45. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Climax
Tragedy
First person
46. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
In -text citation
Cite
Third Person Omniscient
Fallacious reasoning
47. Tell how things are alike and different
Compare and Contrast
Third Person Limited
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Syntax
48. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Cross - curricular
Theme
Plagiarism
Counterclaim
49. 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.
Cohesion
Parallel plots
Inference
Internal Conflict
50. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Parallel plots
Resolution
Mood
Conjunctive adverbs