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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






2. 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.






3. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






4. 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.






5. Make a blueprint of






6. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






7. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






8. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






9. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






10. Character pitted against protagonist






11. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






12. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






13. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






14. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






15. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






16. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






17. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






18. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






19. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






20. The study of the sources and development of words






21. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






22. Assert or affirm strongly






23. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






24. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






25. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






26. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






27. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






28. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






29. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






30. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






31. An idea that is implied or suggested






32. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






33. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






34. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






35. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






36. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






40. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






41. Main character in fiction or drama






42. Using language effectively to please or persuade






43. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






44. To examine carefully; study closely






45. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






46. A system of scaffolds






47. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






48. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






49. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






50. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence







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