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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. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Cite
Personification
Sensory language
Paraphrase
2. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Third Person Limited
Atmosphere
Inference
Rising Action
3. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Oxymoron
Third Person Omniscient
Alliteration
Artistic medium
4. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Exposition
Conflict
Sensory language
Nuances
5. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Fiction
Narrative
Inference
Onomatopoeia
6. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Counterclaim
Setting
Round
Third Person Omniscient
7. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Claim
Plot
Non -fiction
Stanza
8. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Evaluate
Synthesize
Simile
Plagiarism
9. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Symbolism
Non -fiction
Third Person Omniscient
Falling action
10. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Resolution
Static
11. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Act
Climax
Claim
Complex
12. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Atmosphere
Climax
Flat
13. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Delineate
Round
Draft
Scene
14. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Direct Quotation
Act
Dialogue
Pacing
15. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Evaluate
Resolution
Etymology
Direct Quotation
16. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Summarize
Personification
Soliloquy
Subordinate
17. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Soliloquy
Draft
Cohesion
Character
18. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Climax
Paraphrase
Rhyme
Stanza
19. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Artistic medium
Act
Conflict
Cite
20. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Summarize
Textual evidence
Paraphrase
Figurative language
21. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Figurative language
Conjunctive adverbs
Tone
Repetition
22. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Scaffolding
Plagiarism
Cross - curricular
Analyze
23. Classifying people by their traits.
Conflict
Symbolism
Hero (tragic)
Stereotype
24. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Exposition
Transition
Point of View
Third person
25. A system of scaffolds
Hero (tragic)
Delineate
Scaffolding
Conflict
26. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
First person
Cross - curricular
Compare and Contrast
27. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Flashback
Argument
Tragedy
Summarize
28. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Summarize
Mood
Refrain
Sensory language
29. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Falling action
Transition
Sensory language
30. 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.
Cross - curricular
Paraphrase
Repetition
Internal Conflict
31. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Flashback
Onomatopoeia
Transition
Synthesize
32. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Antagonist
Claim
Protagonist
Atmosphere
33. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Motivation
Stereotype
Simile
Transition
34. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Claim
Euphemism
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
35. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Textual evidence
Conflict
Complex
Euphemism
36. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Third person
Atmosphere
Paraphrase
Speaker
37. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Cross - curricular
Subordinate
Tragedy
38. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Transition
First person
Euphemism
Suspense
39. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Antagonist
Socratic Seminar
Setting
Plagiarism
40. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Indirect
Textual evidence
Mood
Subordinate
41. Describe in vivid detail
Internal Conflict
Narrative
Round
Delineate
42. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Third person
Cite
Characterization (indirect and direct)
43. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Non -fiction
Conflict
Parallel plots
Dialogue
44. The study of the sources and development of words
Figurative language
Etymology
Rising Action
Syntax
45. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Internal Conflict
Information
Etymology
46. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Delineate
Symbolism
Exposition
Rhyme
47. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Mood
Speaker
Climax
Flat
48. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Independent
Refrain
Formal
Fiction
49. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Pathos
Theme
Cohesion
Cite
50. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Hero (tragic)
Symbolism
Inference
Flat