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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. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Figurative language
Stereotype
Transition
Synthesize
2. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Indirect
Rising Action
Pathos
Tone
3. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Alliteration
Pacing
Act
Formal
4. 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.
Transition
Aside
Motivation
Parallel plots
5. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Oxymoron
Third Person Omniscient
Analyze
6. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
In -text citation
Fallacious reasoning
Motivation
7. Give the main point or idea
Alliteration
Information
Independent
Summarize
8. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Dialogue
Independent
9. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Stanza
Inference
Rhyme
10. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Repetition
Parallel Structure
Textual evidence
11. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Narrative
Mood
Clause
Cite
12. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Tragedy
Objective Summary
Mood
Tragedy
13. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Personification
Personification
Nuances
Cross - curricular
14. Make a blueprint of
Internal Conflict
Suspense
Antagonist
Draft
15. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Hero (tragic)
Parallel plots
Paraphrase
Atmosphere
16. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Direct
Parallel plots
Objective Summary
17. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Rising Action
Round
Stanza
18. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Rising Action
Setting
Transition
19. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Counterclaim
Cite
Connotation
First person
20. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Refrain
Direct Quotation
Complex
Setting
21. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Antagonist
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Conflict
Pacing
22. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Fiction
Complex
Independent
Draft
23. Classifying people by their traits.
Subordinate
Flat
Argument
Stereotype
24. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Atmosphere
Flat
Stanza
25. 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
Syntax
Argument
Analyze
26. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Independent
Imagery
Syntax
Phrases
27. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Synthesize
Draft
Information
Compare and Contrast
28. Classifying people by their traits.
Fiction
Sensory language
Stereotype
Characterization (indirect and direct)
29. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
In -text citation
Simile
Independent
Parallel plots
30. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Resolution
Climax
Subordinate
Plot
31. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Rhetoric
Falling action
Setting
Parallel plots
32. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Speaker
Resolution
Paraphrase
Tone
33. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Simile
Plot
Direct Quotation
Formal
34. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Claim
Citation
Hero (tragic)
Argument
35. Using language effectively to please or persuade
First person
Formal
Climax
Rhetoric
36. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Connotation
Synthesize
Non -fiction
Claim
37. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Act
Symbolism
Artistic medium
38. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Oxymoron
Transition
Climax
Artistic medium
39. Showing little if any change
Static
Information
Tone
Indirect
40. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Claim
Sensory language
Antagonist
Round
41. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Sensory language
Point of View
Objective Summary
Socratic Seminar
42. Scene in a movie - play - short story - novel - or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
Fiction
Sensory language
Flashback
Syntax
43. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Syntax
Clause
Rising Action
44. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Aside
Repetition
Inference
Mood
45. Character pitted against protagonist
Cite
Antagonist
Fallacious reasoning
Connotation
46. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Independent
Parallel Structure
Clause
Inference
47. 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.
Parallel plots
Compare and Contrast
First person
Third Person Omniscient
48. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Climax
Socratic Seminar
In -text citation
49. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Tone
Stereotype
Rising Action
Climax
50. 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
Direct
Cross - curricular
Counterclaim