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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






2. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






3. Crediting source within the paper.






4. Describe in vivid detail






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






6. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






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






8. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






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






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






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






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






13. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






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






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






18. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






20. 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






21. Classifying people by their traits.






22. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






23. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






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






25. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






26. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






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






29. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






30. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






31. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






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






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






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






35. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






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






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






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






39. To examine carefully; study closely






40. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






41. 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.






42. Give the main point or idea






43. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






45. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






46. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






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






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






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






50. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.