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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Describe in vivid detail
Plot
Aside
Delineate
Transition
2. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Syntax
Setting
Objective Summary
Dialogue
3. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Flashback
Protagonist
First person
Rhetoric
4. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Conjunctive adverbs
Aside
Information
Hero (tragic)
5. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Rhetoric
Textual evidence
Flat
6. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Conflict
Synthesize
Climax
7. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Mood
Resolution
Character
Oxymoron
8. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Third person
Speaker
Argument
Parallel Structure
9. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Draft
Symbolism
Tone
10. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Non -fiction
Third Person Limited
Protagonist
Phrases
11. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Transition
Exposition
Pacing
Direct Quotation
12. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Artistic medium
Phrases
Flashback
Stanza
13. 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
Scaffolding
Hero (tragic)
Pacing
Soliloquy
14. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Oxymoron
Protagonist
Flashback
Suspense
15. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Counterclaim
Non -fiction
Argument
Formal
16. Crediting source within the paper.
Subordinate
Refrain
In -text citation
Informative/explanatory text
17. Showing little if any change
Delineate
Pathos
Static
Flat
18. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Character
Textual evidence
Formal
Artistic medium
19. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Phrases
Socratic Seminar
Tragedy
Atmosphere
20. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Act
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Personification
Point of View
21. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Summarize
Third person
Syntax
Inference
22. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Etymology
Atmosphere
Artistic medium
Tone
23. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Pathos
Pacing
Argument
Symbolism
24. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Rhyme
Transition
Sensory language
Pathos
25. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Plot
Flashback
Setting
26. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Soliloquy
Phrases
Tone
Summarize
27. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Rhetoric
Antagonist
Summarize
28. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Third Person Omniscient
Exposition
Plot
Textual evidence
29. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Claim
Oxymoron
Argument
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
30. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Non -fiction
Syntax
Compare and Contrast
Figurative language
31. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Character
Mood
Act
Hero (tragic)
32. Describe in vivid detail
Aside
Delineate
Independent
Counterclaim
33. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Subordinate
Paraphrase
Flat
Nuances
34. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Subordinate
Informative/explanatory text
Parallel Structure
35. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Draft
Narrative
Setting
Symbolism
36. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
In -text citation
Summarize
Soliloquy
Rising Action
37. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Hero (tragic)
Informative/explanatory text
Imagery
Round
38. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Non -fiction
Rhetoric
Nuances
Antagonist
39. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Round
Repetition
Rising Action
Scene
40. 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
Hero (tragic)
Informative/explanatory text
Repetition
Plot
41. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Antagonist
Third person
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Subordinate
42. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
First person
Mood
Alliteration
Stanza
43. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Cite
Plot
Direct Quotation
Falling action
44. 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.
Internal Conflict
Artistic medium
Counterclaim
Information
45. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Figurative language
Etymology
Nuances
46. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Direct
Draft
Oxymoron
Claim
47. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Oxymoron
Round
Sensory language
48. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Nuances
Soliloquy
Independent
49. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Setting
Fiction
Cite
Claim
50. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Textual evidence
Parallel plots
Cross - curricular
Falling action