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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






3. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






4. Examine and judge carefully.






5. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






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






7. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






8. Examine and judge carefully.






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






10. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






11. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






12. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






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. 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.






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






16. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






17. Describe in vivid detail






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






19. 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.






20. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






21. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






22. Give the main point or idea






23. The study of the sources and development of words






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






25. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






26. Showing little if any change






27. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






28. To examine carefully; study closely






29. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






30. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






31. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






32. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






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






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






35. Using language effectively to please or persuade






36. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






37. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






38. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






40. Lacking stimulating characteristics






41. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






42. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






43. Testimony that is presented word for word.






44. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






45. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






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






47. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






48. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






49. Describe in vivid detail






50. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work