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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. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Cross - curricular
Non -fiction
Indirect
2. To examine carefully; study closely
Sensory language
Informative/explanatory text
Imagery
Analyze
3. 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.
Direct
In -text citation
Summarize
Aside
4. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Parallel Structure
Draft
First person
Paraphrase
5. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Objective Summary
Speaker
Informative/explanatory text
Motivation
6. The study of the sources and development of words
Subordinate
Etymology
Figurative language
Counterclaim
7. Main character in fiction or drama
Connotation
Synthesize
Protagonist
Flat
8. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Refrain
Atmosphere
Soliloquy
Exposition
9. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Round
Formal
Third Person Omniscient
10. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Hero (tragic)
Climax
First person
Theme
11. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Cite
Stanza
Speaker
12. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Indirect
Third person
Tone
Narrative
13. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Stereotype
Direct Quotation
Scaffolding
Soliloquy
14. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Exposition
Synthesize
First person
Alliteration
15. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Round
In -text citation
Act
Scene
16. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Parallel plots
Third person
Citation
17. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Alliteration
Summarize
Round
Symbolism
18. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Act
Point of View
Motivation
19. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Summarize
Transition
Syntax
Characterization (indirect and direct)
20. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Summarize
Resolution
Cross - curricular
Clause
21. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Artistic medium
In -text citation
Evaluate
22. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Aside
Falling action
Compare and Contrast
Characterization (indirect and direct)
23. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Simile
Theme
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
24. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Third person
Symbolism
Character
Summarize
25. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Pacing
Flashback
Tragedy
26. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Round
Tragedy
Counterclaim
Setting
27. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Nuances
Resolution
Counterclaim
Information
28. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Dialogue
Plot
Stanza
Stereotype
29. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Connotation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Third Person Omniscient
Syntax
30. The study of the sources and development of words
Paraphrase
Formal
Conflict
Etymology
31. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
In -text citation
Independent
Citation
Symbolism
32. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Third Person Limited
Euphemism
Pathos
Protagonist
33. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Clause
Direct
Clause
Informative/explanatory text
34. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Objective Summary
Cite
Scene
Refrain
35. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Transition
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Sensory language
36. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Protagonist
Round
Inference
37. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Point of View
Alliteration
Fallacious reasoning
Delineate
38. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Direct Quotation
Textual evidence
Artistic medium
Sensory language
39. 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.
Plot
Internal Conflict
Indirect
Cite
40. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Indirect
Point of View
Pathos
Synthesize
41. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Internal Conflict
Cross - curricular
Dialogue
Artistic medium
42. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Draft
Rhetoric
Onomatopoeia
Rising Action
43. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Hero (tragic)
Flat
Cite
Cross - curricular
44. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Refrain
Figurative language
Plot
Direct
45. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Information
Etymology
Setting
Dialogue
46. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Rhetoric
Conjunctive adverbs
Subordinate
47. Examine and judge carefully.
Cohesion
Direct Quotation
Evaluate
Characterization (indirect and direct)
48. 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.
Indirect
Personification
Objective Summary
Climax
49. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.
Rising Action
Scaffolding
Narrative
Socratic Seminar
50. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Tone
Hero (tragic)
Syntax
Pacing