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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Socratic Seminar
Act
Counterclaim
2. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Direct Quotation
Soliloquy
Flashback
3. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Synthesize
Citation
Parallel Structure
Plagiarism
4. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Third Person Omniscient
Non -fiction
Symbolism
Delineate
5. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Connotation
Rhyme
Artistic medium
Objective Summary
6. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Direct Quotation
Atmosphere
Character
Objective Summary
7. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Clause
Paraphrase
Plot
Rhyme
8. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Textual evidence
Atmosphere
Refrain
Simile
9. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Internal Conflict
Fiction
Scaffolding
Complex
10. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Conflict
Synthesize
Resolution
11. Assert or affirm strongly
Indirect
Cross - curricular
Oxymoron
Claim
12. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Textual evidence
Evaluate
Flat
13. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Symbolism
In -text citation
Etymology
14. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Plagiarism
Complex
Theme
Cross - curricular
15. Give the main point or idea
Climax
Aside
Exposition
Summarize
16. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Atmosphere
Fiction
Theme
Sensory language
17. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Socratic Seminar
Information
Claim
Rising Action
18. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Textual evidence
Soliloquy
Third Person Omniscient
Setting
19. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Plot
Formal
Third person
Mood
20. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Argument
Cohesion
Figurative language
21. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Internal Conflict
Complex
First person
22. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Objective Summary
Sensory language
Phrases
Onomatopoeia
23. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Claim
Pathos
Socratic Seminar
Draft
24. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Conflict
Pathos
Refrain
Compare and Contrast
25. Showing little if any change
Synthesize
Fiction
Static
Paraphrase
26. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Tone
Claim
Protagonist
Dialogue
27. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Antagonist
Third person
Symbolism
Conflict
28. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Objective Summary
Narrative
Parallel Structure
29. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Onomatopoeia
Suspense
Character
Connotation
30. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Third Person Limited
Textual evidence
Conjunctive adverbs
31. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Atmosphere
Plagiarism
Fallacious reasoning
Synthesize
32. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Informative/explanatory text
Repetition
Argument
33. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Rhetoric
Parallel Structure
Act
Speaker
34. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Parallel Structure
Suspense
Inference
35. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Stereotype
Information
Symbolism
Theme
36. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Cite
Personification
Euphemism
37. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Hero (tragic)
Transition
Rising Action
Phrases
38. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Evaluate
Motivation
Resolution
Protagonist
39. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Theme
Draft
Static
Speaker
40. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Onomatopoeia
Formal
Information
41. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Repetition
Cite
Fallacious reasoning
42. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Cite
Tragedy
Soliloquy
43. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Rhetoric
Third Person Omniscient
Nuances
Non -fiction
44. 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
First person
Parallel Structure
Pathos
45. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Socratic Seminar
Suspense
Phrases
46. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Fallacious reasoning
Point of View
Antagonist
Scene
47. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Suspense
Pathos
Claim
Conjunctive adverbs
48. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Etymology
Paraphrase
Third Person Omniscient
49. Tell how things are alike and different
Draft
Information
Round
Compare and Contrast
50. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Repetition
Stereotype
Etymology