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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






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






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






4. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






6. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






7. Using language effectively to please or persuade






8. 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.






9. Character pitted against protagonist






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. Using language effectively to please or persuade






16. 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.






17. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






18. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






25. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






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






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






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






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






30. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






32. 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






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






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






35. Main character in fiction or drama






36. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






38. Describe in vivid detail






39. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






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






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






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






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






44. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






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






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






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






48. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






50. Crediting source within the paper.