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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Conjunctive adverbs
Cohesion
Protagonist
Nuances
2. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Draft
Aside
Narrative
Static
3. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Euphemism
Imagery
Citation
Stereotype
4. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
In -text citation
Parallel Structure
Synthesize
5. Examine and judge carefully.
Fiction
Evaluate
Synthesize
Antagonist
6. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Cohesion
Euphemism
Round
In -text citation
7. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Tone
Repetition
Symbolism
8. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Act
Hero (tragic)
Cohesion
First person
9. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Transition
In -text citation
Tragedy
Imagery
10. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Tragedy
Scaffolding
Transition
11. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Conjunctive adverbs
Objective Summary
Third Person Limited
Soliloquy
12. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Suspense
Conflict
Symbolism
Hero (tragic)
13. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Flat
Cohesion
Speaker
14. 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.
Flashback
Direct Quotation
Atmosphere
Euphemism
15. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
First person
Falling action
Plagiarism
16. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Non -fiction
Exposition
Synthesize
First person
17. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Subordinate
Clause
Dialogue
Formal
18. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Symbolism
Conjunctive adverbs
Artistic medium
19. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Parallel plots
Character
Independent
Oxymoron
20. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Direct Quotation
Plot
Static
Setting
21. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Narrative
Motivation
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
22. Describe in vivid detail
Etymology
Delineate
Personification
Tragedy
23. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Parallel Structure
Falling action
Etymology
Scene
24. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Summarize
Scene
Paraphrase
Imagery
25. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
Flat
Counterclaim
Simile
26. Classifying people by their traits.
Parallel plots
Independent
Stereotype
Scene
27. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Rising Action
Refrain
Claim
28. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Parallel Structure
Tragedy
Parallel plots
29. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Act
Point of View
Dialogue
Cohesion
30. Tell how things are alike and different
Third Person Limited
Compare and Contrast
Cohesion
Motivation
31. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Fiction
Evaluate
Round
32. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Draft
Rising Action
Figurative language
Claim
33. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Phrases
Pacing
Cross - curricular
Summarize
34. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Evaluate
Conflict
Transition
Parallel plots
35. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Pathos
Point of View
First person
Motivation
36. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Subordinate
First person
Speaker
Setting
37. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Dialogue
Direct Quotation
Scene
Exposition
38. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Summarize
Oxymoron
Cite
39. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Conjunctive adverbs
Suspense
Dialogue
40. Examine and judge carefully.
Sensory language
Evaluate
Fiction
Formal
41. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Onomatopoeia
Objective Summary
Narrative
Information
42. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Artistic medium
Pathos
Counterclaim
43. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Tone
First person
Cohesion
44. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Citation
Independent
Counterclaim
Syntax
45. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Static
First person
Personification
46. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Subordinate
Independent
Phrases
47. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Fallacious reasoning
Formal
Information
Simile
48. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Counterclaim
Tone
Sensory language
Tragedy
49. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Onomatopoeia
Tragedy
Information
Informative/explanatory text
50. 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.
Direct Quotation
Claim
Indirect
Alliteration
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