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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Main character in fiction or drama
Falling action
Citation
Protagonist
Sensory language
2. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Euphemism
Character
Clause
Conflict
3. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Transition
Suspense
Synthesize
Plot
4. 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
In -text citation
Textual evidence
Internal Conflict
5. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Parallel plots
Resolution
Speaker
Third Person Limited
6. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Setting
Repetition
Flashback
Theme
7. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Third Person Limited
Climax
Rhyme
8. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Plot
Simile
Alliteration
Conflict
9. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Rising Action
Direct
Resolution
Climax
10. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Parallel Structure
Aside
Connotation
Independent
11. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Flashback
Stanza
Complex
Informative/explanatory text
12. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Repetition
Third Person Omniscient
Stanza
Subordinate
13. 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.
Nuances
Flashback
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Cohesion
14. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Direct Quotation
Repetition
Point of View
Pacing
15. The state of cohering or sticking together
Indirect
Citation
Cohesion
Internal Conflict
16. 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.
Aside
Static
Transition
Rhyme
17. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Refrain
Evaluate
Figurative language
Subordinate
18. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Tone
Citation
Figurative language
Inference
19. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Citation
Pathos
Etymology
Onomatopoeia
20. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Rhetoric
Aside
Act
21. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Summarize
Independent
Synthesize
In -text citation
22. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Syntax
Artistic medium
Objective Summary
Internal Conflict
23. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Aside
Motivation
Analyze
24. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Imagery
Evaluate
Flat
Climax
25. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Independent
Round
Nuances
Mood
26. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Indirect
Soliloquy
Connotation
27. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Exposition
Inference
Draft
Argument
28. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Draft
Figurative language
Plot
29. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Tragedy
Rhetoric
Internal Conflict
30. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Delineate
Complex
Cite
31. Main character in fiction or drama
Information
Protagonist
Oxymoron
Independent
32. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Textual evidence
Aside
Act
Summarize
33. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
First person
Direct
Euphemism
Tone
34. Make a blueprint of
Transition
Argument
Draft
Resolution
35. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Claim
Falling action
Aside
36. A system of scaffolds
Nuances
Internal Conflict
Parallel plots
Scaffolding
37. Showing little if any change
Character
Symbolism
Static
Flashback
38. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Falling action
Motivation
Summarize
Character
39. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Scene
Antagonist
Atmosphere
Static
40. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Speaker
Simile
Compare and Contrast
Setting
41. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Narrative
Tone
Repetition
Transition
42. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Delineate
Act
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Complex
43. Assert or affirm strongly
Synthesize
Scaffolding
Direct
Claim
44. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Stanza
Transition
Draft
Rhyme
45. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Synthesize
Artistic medium
Aside
Compare and Contrast
46. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Subordinate
Nuances
Parallel Structure
Conflict
47. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Pathos
Textual evidence
Motivation
Rhyme
48. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Compare and Contrast
Rhetoric
Symbolism
Argument
49. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Information
Repetition
Complex
Indirect
50. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conflict
Imagery
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Conjunctive adverbs