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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






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






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






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






7. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






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






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






10. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






11. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






12. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






13. Crediting source within the paper.






14. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






15. Lacking stimulating characteristics






16. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






17. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






18. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






19. Tell how things are alike and different






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






21. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






22. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






23. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






24. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






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






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






27. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






28. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






29. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






30. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






31. Character pitted against protagonist






32. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






38. Character pitted against protagonist






39. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






40. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






42. 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.






43. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






44. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






45. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






46. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






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






48. 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.






49. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






50. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions