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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. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Indirect
Conflict
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
2. A convention in drama whereby a character on stage addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling that is presumed inaudible to any other character on stage.
Aside
Inference
Mood
Point of View
3. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Transition
Euphemism
Aside
4. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Tone
Tragedy
Tone
Synthesize
5. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Stereotype
Personification
Plagiarism
Cohesion
6. Classifying people by their traits.
Onomatopoeia
Stereotype
Sensory language
Inference
7. Showing little if any change
Scene
Static
Symbolism
Textual evidence
8. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Pathos
Summarize
Mood
Nuances
9. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Scene
Symbolism
Compare and Contrast
Conjunctive adverbs
10. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Clause
Parallel plots
Speaker
Repetition
11. Assert or affirm strongly
Plagiarism
Climax
Claim
Characterization (indirect and direct)
12. Method of character development in which the author reveals the personality of character through their speech - thoughts - actions - appearance - or effects of others toward the character.
Flashback
Indirect
Informative/explanatory text
Refrain
13. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Antagonist
Flat
Onomatopoeia
14. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Protagonist
Counterclaim
Resolution
Socratic Seminar
15. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Summarize
Rhetoric
Exposition
Dialogue
16. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Soliloquy
Objective Summary
Narrative
Onomatopoeia
17. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Narrative
Parallel Structure
Motivation
Flat
18. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Cohesion
Refrain
Flashback
Euphemism
19. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Informative/explanatory text
Resolution
Third person
Complex
20. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Symbolism
Resolution
Atmosphere
21. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Oxymoron
Formal
Scene
Symbolism
22. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Repetition
Artistic medium
Setting
23. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Etymology
Motivation
Aside
24. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Summarize
Falling action
Nuances
Stanza
25. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Point of View
Protagonist
Round
Oxymoron
26. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Draft
Nuances
Stereotype
Theme
27. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Suspense
Information
Soliloquy
28. 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.
Sensory language
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Exposition
29. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Fiction
Motivation
Character
Complex
30. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Cohesion
Character
Act
31. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Personification
Personification
Nuances
32. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Symbolism
Euphemism
Alliteration
Plagiarism
33. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Soliloquy
Direct Quotation
Mood
34. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Nuances
Euphemism
Textual evidence
Clause
35. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Flashback
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Artistic medium
36. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Symbolism
Character
Analyze
Compare and Contrast
37. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Personification
In -text citation
Clause
38. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Dialogue
Non -fiction
Citation
39. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Conflict
Direct Quotation
Pathos
Direct
40. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Nuances
Counterclaim
Rhyme
Third Person Omniscient
41. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Draft
Theme
Imagery
Point of View
42. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Syntax
Draft
Objective Summary
Clause
43. Examine and judge carefully.
Round
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Tone
Evaluate
44. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Pathos
Citation
Antagonist
45. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Transition
Falling action
Independent
Cite
46. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Analyze
Transition
Complex
Subordinate
47. The state of cohering or sticking together
Plot
Cohesion
Stanza
Subordinate
48. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Direct Quotation
Symbolism
Draft
Delineate
49. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Cite
Round
Informative/explanatory text
50. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Delineate
Personification
Simile
Independent