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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. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Soliloquy
Mood
Climax
Tragedy
2. Tell how things are alike and different
Direct
Compare and Contrast
Narrative
Point of View
3. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Non -fiction
Transition
Pathos
4. 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.
Fallacious reasoning
Tone
Inference
Aside
5. Assert or affirm strongly
Compare and Contrast
Syntax
Claim
Point of View
6. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Transition
Objective Summary
Direct Quotation
Cite
7. 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
Paraphrase
Hero (tragic)
Imagery
Tragedy
8. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Personification
Cite
Euphemism
Fiction
9. Examine and judge carefully.
Falling action
Evaluate
First person
Plagiarism
10. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Analyze
Complex
11. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Refrain
Parallel Structure
In -text citation
Counterclaim
12. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Inference
Setting
In -text citation
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
13. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
Speaker
Scene
Setting
14. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Phrases
Protagonist
Evaluate
15. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Tone
Hero (tragic)
Alliteration
Citation
16. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Transition
Syntax
Character
Hero (tragic)
17. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.
Connotation
Socratic Seminar
Round
Counterclaim
18. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Argument
Figurative language
Third Person Limited
19. Crediting source within the paper.
Narrative
Artistic medium
Imagery
In -text citation
20. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Conflict
Objective Summary
Alliteration
Imagery
21. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Conjunctive adverbs
Complex
Suspense
Tone
22. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Third person
Third Person Limited
Information
First person
23. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Dialogue
Repetition
Argument
24. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Independent
Tone
Draft
Aside
25. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Pathos
Figurative language
Conflict
Narrative
26. 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
Simile
Stanza
Argument
27. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Complex
Independent
Simile
Exposition
28. 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.
Subordinate
Simile
Repetition
Third Person Omniscient
29. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Analyze
Rhyme
Setting
Stanza
30. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Figurative language
Simile
Soliloquy
Symbolism
31. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Plot
Non -fiction
Tone
32. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Transition
Plot
Figurative language
Transition
33. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Cite
Analyze
Speaker
34. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
First person
Flat
Antagonist
Non -fiction
35. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Point of View
Suspense
Direct Quotation
36. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Protagonist
Mood
37. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Figurative language
Climax
Transition
38. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Sensory language
Objective Summary
Personification
39. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Information
Static
Counterclaim
Internal Conflict
40. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Suspense
Indirect
Stereotype
41. Classifying people by their traits.
Parallel plots
Stereotype
Connotation
Synthesize
42. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Simile
Formal
Information
Pathos
43. Examine and judge carefully.
Citation
Evaluate
Draft
Paraphrase
44. Classifying people by their traits.
Soliloquy
Stereotype
Nuances
Non -fiction
45. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Personification
Citation
Inference
Hero (tragic)
46. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Alliteration
Climax
Euphemism
Evaluate
47. Main character in fiction or drama
Sensory language
Onomatopoeia
Protagonist
Exposition
48. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Climax
Inference
Refrain
Scene
49. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Direct
Aside
Point of View
50. An idea that is implied or suggested
Scaffolding
Alliteration
Socratic Seminar
Connotation