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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. Give the main point or idea
Speaker
Scaffolding
Scene
Summarize
2. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Cross - curricular
Pathos
Cite
Euphemism
3. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Round
Static
Rising Action
4. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Argument
Conflict
Paraphrase
Direct Quotation
5. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Narrative
Personification
Falling action
Artistic medium
6. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Motivation
Subordinate
Informative/explanatory text
Internal Conflict
7. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Soliloquy
Character
Conjunctive adverbs
Figurative language
8. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Static
Alliteration
Theme
Analyze
9. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Setting
Plot
Narrative
Suspense
10. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Conjunctive adverbs
Third Person Omniscient
Independent
Objective Summary
11. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Stanza
Repetition
Clause
12. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Parallel Structure
Fallacious reasoning
Symbolism
13. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Atmosphere
Round
Etymology
Stanza
14. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Pacing
Syntax
Figurative language
Inference
15. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Personification
Clause
In -text citation
Draft
16. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Etymology
Transition
Repetition
First person
17. Make a blueprint of
Parallel plots
Antagonist
Inference
Draft
18. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Third Person Limited
Mood
Symbolism
Falling action
19. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Phrases
Resolution
Symbolism
Scene
20. 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.
Textual evidence
Motivation
Flashback
Counterclaim
21. The study of the sources and development of words
Nuances
Etymology
Climax
Oxymoron
22. The state of cohering or sticking together
Information
Cohesion
Act
Scaffolding
23. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Draft
Syntax
Information
24. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Refrain
Evaluate
First person
25. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Phrases
Citation
Rhyme
Counterclaim
26. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Pacing
Onomatopoeia
Phrases
Flat
27. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Nuances
Static
Inference
Onomatopoeia
28. Assert or affirm strongly
Cohesion
Connotation
Draft
Claim
29. Examine and judge carefully.
Independent
Evaluate
Sensory language
Speaker
30. 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.
Phrases
Socratic Seminar
Point of View
Delineate
31. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Subordinate
Phrases
Argument
Fiction
32. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Cross - curricular
Analyze
Sensory language
Narrative
33. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Soliloquy
Dialogue
Evaluate
Draft
34. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Plot
Figurative language
Speaker
Connotation
35. 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.
Personification
Complex
Aside
Suspense
36. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Socratic Seminar
Scaffolding
Artistic medium
37. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Indirect
Pathos
Objective Summary
38. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Nuances
Resolution
Rhyme
Hero (tragic)
39. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Atmosphere
Artistic medium
Soliloquy
40. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Etymology
Imagery
Cohesion
Suspense
41. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Syntax
Parallel plots
Character
Refrain
42. Character pitted against protagonist
Indirect
Narrative
Third Person Omniscient
Antagonist
43. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Etymology
Mood
Non -fiction
Transition
44. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Soliloquy
Aside
Pathos
45. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Third Person Omniscient
Etymology
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Symbolism
46. Showing little if any change
Connotation
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Rhyme
Static
47. Main character in fiction or drama
Act
Protagonist
First person
Symbolism
48. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Cite
Information
Hero (tragic)
Informative/explanatory text
49. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Euphemism
Cohesion
Rhetoric
50. 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.
Character
Plot
Third Person Omniscient
Refrain
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