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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






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.






3. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






4. Showing little if any change






5. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






6. Tell how things are alike and different






7. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






8. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






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






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






11. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






12. Assert or affirm strongly






13. Character pitted against protagonist






14. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






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






16. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






17. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






18. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






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






20. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






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






23. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






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






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






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






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






28. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






29. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






30. 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.






31. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






32. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






33. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






34. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






37. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






38. Examine and judge carefully.






39. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






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






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






42. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






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






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






45. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






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






47. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






48. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






49. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






50. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features







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