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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






2. Describe in vivid detail






3. 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






4. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






5. 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.






6. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






7. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






8. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






9. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






10. Testimony that is presented word for word.






11. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






12. Make a blueprint of






13. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






14. The study of the sources and development of words






15. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






16. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






17. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






18. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






19. Main character in fiction or drama






20. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






21. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






22. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






23. 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






24. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






25. A system of scaffolds






26. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






27. 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.






28. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






29. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






30. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






31. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






32. Assert or affirm strongly






33. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






34. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






35. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






36. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






37. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






38. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






39. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






40. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






41. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






42. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






43. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






44. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






45. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






46. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






47. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






48. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






49. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






50. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.