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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. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Point of View
Rhetoric
Evaluate
Objective Summary
2. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Complex
Counterclaim
Imagery
3. 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.
Socratic Seminar
Cite
Phrases
Symbolism
4. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Syntax
Oxymoron
Atmosphere
Non -fiction
5. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Motivation
Third Person Limited
Inference
Analyze
6. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Stanza
Fallacious reasoning
Etymology
Theme
7. An idea that is implied or suggested
Tone
Connotation
Protagonist
Rhyme
8. Character pitted against protagonist
Subordinate
Soliloquy
Mood
Antagonist
9. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Subordinate
Conflict
Plagiarism
Direct Quotation
10. 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.
Pathos
Stereotype
Aside
Paraphrase
11. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Conjunctive adverbs
Flat
Sensory language
First person
12. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Direct Quotation
Personification
Cite
Third Person Omniscient
13. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Indirect
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Synthesize
Repetition
14. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Connotation
Internal Conflict
Nuances
Rhyme
15. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Third person
Act
Point of View
16. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Soliloquy
Symbolism
Artistic medium
Socratic Seminar
17. 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
Cite
Non -fiction
Direct Quotation
18. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Clause
Rising Action
Resolution
19. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Counterclaim
Personification
Figurative language
Cite
20. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Counterclaim
Tone
Round
Mood
21. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Simile
Argument
Inference
Synthesize
22. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Figurative language
Internal Conflict
Simile
Resolution
23. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Parallel plots
Compare and Contrast
Artistic medium
Climax
24. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Direct Quotation
Stereotype
Motivation
First person
25. 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
Third person
Hero (tragic)
Information
Round
26. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Stanza
Syntax
Theme
Cite
27. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Antagonist
Formal
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Speaker
28. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Cite
Draft
Scene
Artistic medium
29. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Character
Act
Fallacious reasoning
30. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Analyze
Complex
Rhyme
Direct Quotation
31. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Subordinate
Plot
Repetition
Motivation
32. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Inference
Pacing
Argument
Onomatopoeia
33. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Formal
Symbolism
Resolution
Mood
34. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Flashback
Socratic Seminar
Conjunctive adverbs
35. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Flat
Third Person Limited
Formal
Imagery
36. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Tone
Sensory language
37. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Inference
Pathos
Act
Imagery
38. 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.
Plagiarism
Conflict
Third Person Omniscient
Third person
39. To examine carefully; study closely
Evaluate
Analyze
Argument
Stanza
40. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Parallel plots
Euphemism
Parallel plots
41. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Transition
Parallel plots
Character
42. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Tragedy
Rising Action
Repetition
Phrases
43. Make a blueprint of
Static
Syntax
Third Person Limited
Draft
44. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Cohesion
Pathos
Transition
Direct Quotation
45. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Delineate
Clause
Repetition
Analyze
46. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
In -text citation
Synthesize
Suspense
47. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Exposition
Imagery
Claim
Falling action
48. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Draft
Summarize
Claim
49. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Direct Quotation
Parallel plots
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
50. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Suspense
Speaker
Atmosphere