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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Plot
Antagonist
Parallel plots
2. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Aside
Motivation
Pathos
Theme
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
Hero (tragic)
Dialogue
Phrases
Parallel plots
4. 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
Hero (tragic)
Antagonist
Pacing
5. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Paraphrase
Information
Plagiarism
6. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Protagonist
Information
Speaker
Round
7. The study of the sources and development of words
Scene
Etymology
Conflict
Soliloquy
8. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Character
Pathos
Information
Informative/explanatory text
9. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Artistic medium
Exposition
Independent
Rhyme
10. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Symbolism
Internal Conflict
Plot
11. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Information
Conflict
Nuances
Exposition
12. Assert or affirm strongly
Rising Action
Evaluate
Plot
Claim
13. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Subordinate
Pacing
Formal
Non -fiction
14. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Evaluate
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Complex
15. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Stanza
Formal
Subordinate
Draft
16. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Onomatopoeia
Third Person Omniscient
Conjunctive adverbs
17. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Claim
Analyze
Delineate
18. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Setting
Transition
Conjunctive adverbs
Rhetoric
19. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Suspense
Falling action
20. A system of scaffolds
Syntax
Scaffolding
Rising Action
Third person
21. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Phrases
Sensory language
Counterclaim
Atmosphere
22. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Flat
Static
Point of View
Atmosphere
23. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Analyze
Cross - curricular
Sensory language
Act
24. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Paraphrase
Symbolism
Internal Conflict
Argument
25. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Stanza
Plot
Simile
Flashback
26. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Aside
Stereotype
Nuances
27. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Suspense
Mood
Fallacious reasoning
Internal Conflict
28. 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.
Rhetoric
Tragedy
Flashback
Direct Quotation
29. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Simile
Setting
Plot
Tragedy
30. An idea that is implied or suggested
Fiction
Onomatopoeia
Connotation
Static
31. Tell how things are alike and different
Euphemism
Exposition
Direct
Compare and Contrast
32. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Third person
Synthesize
Point of View
Setting
33. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Mood
Speaker
Point of View
First person
34. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Parallel plots
Third Person Omniscient
Resolution
35. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Act
Climax
Resolution
36. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Dialogue
Analyze
Exposition
Plagiarism
37. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
Simile
38. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Parallel Structure
Draft
Fiction
39. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Round
Stanza
Pacing
Clause
40. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Socratic Seminar
Tone
Rhetoric
Climax
41. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Plagiarism
Transition
Mood
42. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Refrain
Cite
Scene
43. Examine and judge carefully.
Subordinate
Pacing
Evaluate
Protagonist
44. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Claim
Rhyme
Sensory language
Characterization (indirect and direct)
45. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Analyze
Draft
Rising Action
46. 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.
Scaffolding
Fallacious reasoning
Flashback
Compare and Contrast
47. The state of cohering or sticking together
Hero (tragic)
Connotation
Rising Action
Cohesion
48. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
First person
Cite
Citation
Narrative
49. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Character
Point of View
Subordinate
Direct Quotation
50. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Third Person Limited
Mood
Soliloquy
Cite
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