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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The state of cohering or sticking together
Speaker
Cross - curricular
Oxymoron
Cohesion
2. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Simile
Climax
Paraphrase
Mood
3. The study of the sources and development of words
Dialogue
Direct Quotation
Etymology
Scene
4. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Draft
Simile
Parallel plots
Falling action
5. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Soliloquy
In -text citation
Direct Quotation
Simile
6. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Static
Argument
Fiction
Falling action
7. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Claim
Informative/explanatory text
Scaffolding
8. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Climax
Refrain
Pathos
Exposition
9. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Counterclaim
Scaffolding
Static
Clause
10. Showing little if any change
Static
Fallacious reasoning
Summarize
Rhyme
11. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Soliloquy
Sensory language
Character
Personification
12. Tell how things are alike and different
Dialogue
Etymology
Compare and Contrast
Climax
13. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Complex
Citation
Cross - curricular
Sensory language
14. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Conflict
Claim
First person
15. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Citation
Inference
First person
Oxymoron
16. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Compare and Contrast
Evaluate
Setting
17. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Oxymoron
In -text citation
Point of View
First person
18. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Symbolism
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Delineate
First person
19. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Synthesize
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rhyme
20. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Argument
Analyze
Cross - curricular
Repetition
21. 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.
Falling action
Objective Summary
Counterclaim
Socratic Seminar
22. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
First person
Rhyme
Imagery
Dialogue
23. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Argument
Cohesion
Direct
Theme
24. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Personification
Scene
Rhetoric
Soliloquy
25. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Phrases
Setting
Symbolism
Falling action
26. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Repetition
Direct
Theme
In -text citation
27. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Fiction
Objective Summary
Rhetoric
Non -fiction
28. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Non -fiction
Dialogue
Round
Parallel Structure
29. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Static
Conjunctive adverbs
Soliloquy
In -text citation
30. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Refrain
Resolution
Round
Parallel plots
31. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Third Person Omniscient
Falling action
Informative/explanatory text
Character
32. Main character in fiction or drama
Parallel plots
Motivation
Direct Quotation
Protagonist
33. 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.
Cite
Etymology
Connotation
Internal Conflict
34. 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.
Motivation
Indirect
Motivation
Euphemism
35. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Sensory language
Stanza
Motivation
Clause
36. 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.
Analyze
Syntax
Internal Conflict
Alliteration
37. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Pathos
Mood
Internal Conflict
38. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Rhyme
Exposition
Flat
Cite
39. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Conflict
Socratic Seminar
Direct Quotation
Claim
40. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Plagiarism
Repetition
Refrain
Analyze
41. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Imagery
Plot
Symbolism
Onomatopoeia
42. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Claim
Refrain
Symbolism
43. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Formal
Static
Claim
Non -fiction
44. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Parallel Structure
Falling action
Rhyme
45. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Pacing
Setting
Internal Conflict
46. To examine carefully; study closely
In -text citation
Connotation
Analyze
Dialogue
47. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Figurative language
Mood
Characterization (indirect and direct)
48. 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
Static
Rhyme
Clause
49. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Narrative
Objective Summary
Pacing
Tragedy
50. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Sensory language
Hero (tragic)
Formal
Artistic medium