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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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1. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Direct Quotation
Parallel Structure
Conflict
Speaker
2. Tell how things are alike and different
Imagery
Cross - curricular
Compare and Contrast
Cite
3. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Conflict
Syntax
Motivation
Climax
4. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Rhyme
Protagonist
Simile
Speaker
5. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Formal
Inference
Cohesion
6. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Suspense
Conjunctive adverbs
Speaker
7. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Clause
Antagonist
Personification
Synthesize
8. The state of cohering or sticking together
Pathos
Rhetoric
Cohesion
Analyze
9. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Flat
Direct Quotation
Fallacious reasoning
Resolution
10. To examine carefully; study closely
Draft
Analyze
Socratic Seminar
Non -fiction
11. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Mood
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Subordinate
12. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Parallel Structure
Oxymoron
Rising Action
Imagery
13. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Synthesize
Figurative language
Conjunctive adverbs
Draft
14. To examine carefully; study closely
Imagery
Atmosphere
Indirect
Analyze
15. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Argument
Third person
Phrases
Act
16. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Climax
Refrain
Socratic Seminar
Textual evidence
17. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Parallel plots
Resolution
Flat
Citation
18. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Exposition
Tragedy
Round
19. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Transition
Repetition
Static
Falling action
20. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Plot
Alliteration
Indirect
21. An idea that is implied or suggested
Claim
Objective Summary
Connotation
Atmosphere
22. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Rising Action
Climax
Independent
23. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Scene
Analyze
Direct Quotation
Inference
24. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Soliloquy
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Formal
Sensory language
25. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Fiction
Dialogue
Flat
Exposition
26. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Onomatopoeia
First person
Paraphrase
Suspense
27. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Suspense
Third Person Omniscient
Aside
Synthesize
28. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Point of View
Euphemism
Scene
29. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Sensory language
Clause
Static
Cohesion
30. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Artistic medium
Round
Citation
Objective Summary
31. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Connotation
Falling action
Static
32. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Act
Textual evidence
Connotation
33. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Non -fiction
Syntax
Imagery
Etymology
34. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Alliteration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Round
Informative/explanatory text
35. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Sensory language
Socratic Seminar
36. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Antagonist
Evaluate
Compare and Contrast
Rhetoric
37. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Analyze
Artistic medium
Rising Action
Argument
38. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Direct
Plot
Direct Quotation
Cite
39. 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
Connotation
Hero (tragic)
Internal Conflict
Round
40. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Stanza
Tragedy
Conjunctive adverbs
Pacing
41. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Formal
Third person
Conflict
Narrative
42. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Non -fiction
Connotation
Hero (tragic)
Rhyme
43. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Fiction
Protagonist
Delineate
44. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Socratic Seminar
Onomatopoeia
Aside
Falling action
45. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Syntax
Refrain
Socratic Seminar
46. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Round
Draft
Personification
Protagonist
47. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Evaluate
Personification
Clause
Citation
48. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Informative/explanatory text
Alliteration
Simile
49. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Informative/explanatory text
Repetition
Direct
Rising Action
50. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Claim
Indirect
Narrative