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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Hero (tragic)
Resolution
Indirect
Summarize
2. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Protagonist
Simile
Round
3. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Parallel Structure
Tone
Soliloquy
Falling action
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.
Delineate
Soliloquy
Flashback
Conjunctive adverbs
5. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Sensory language
Pathos
Direct
Objective Summary
6. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Tone
Paraphrase
Pathos
Independent
7. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Onomatopoeia
Third Person Omniscient
Synthesize
Complex
8. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Exposition
Connotation
Theme
9. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Stereotype
Fallacious reasoning
Etymology
10. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Direct
In -text citation
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
11. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Argument
Rhetoric
Synthesize
Cite
12. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Internal Conflict
Rising Action
Independent
Motivation
13. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Pacing
Falling action
Repetition
Third Person Limited
14. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Oxymoron
Information
Refrain
Subordinate
15. 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.
Non -fiction
Rising Action
Flashback
Third Person Omniscient
16. The state of cohering or sticking together
Delineate
Cohesion
Theme
Citation
17. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Third Person Omniscient
Complex
Analyze
Round
18. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Rhyme
Counterclaim
Personification
Refrain
19. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Symbolism
Draft
Objective Summary
Characterization (indirect and direct)
20. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Conjunctive adverbs
Third person
Act
21. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Falling action
Stanza
Parallel Structure
22. 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.
Suspense
Third person
Internal Conflict
Etymology
23. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Summarize
Inference
Aside
Third Person Limited
24. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Falling action
Summarize
Citation
Information
25. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Exposition
Oxymoron
Falling action
Cross - curricular
26. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Motivation
Point of View
Transition
27. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Climax
Paraphrase
Narrative
Characterization (indirect and direct)
28. A system of scaffolds
Internal Conflict
Scaffolding
Parallel plots
Cross - curricular
29. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Claim
Stereotype
Oxymoron
30. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Exposition
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Draft
Stereotype
31. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Personification
Textual evidence
Cross - curricular
Independent
32. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Exposition
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Plot
33. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
First person
Soliloquy
Exposition
Cite
34. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Etymology
Fiction
Phrases
Rhyme
35. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Third Person Limited
In -text citation
Symbolism
36. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Direct
Fallacious reasoning
First person
Syntax
37. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Parallel Structure
Delineate
Synthesize
Round
38. 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.
Rhetoric
Delineate
Syntax
Third Person Omniscient
39. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Point of View
Nuances
Argument
Narrative
40. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Indirect
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Informative/explanatory text
41. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Artistic medium
Cohesion
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Stereotype
42. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Pathos
Hero (tragic)
Plagiarism
43. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Draft
Euphemism
Plot
Personification
44. An idea that is implied or suggested
Speaker
Connotation
Symbolism
Synthesize
45. The state of cohering or sticking together
Analyze
Scene
Cohesion
Oxymoron
46. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Formal
Suspense
Analyze
47. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Simile
Formal
Objective Summary
Parallel plots
48. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Fallacious reasoning
Independent
Mood
Plagiarism
49. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Dialogue
Symbolism
Complex
Direct
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.
Summarize
Cohesion
Figurative language
Indirect