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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






2. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






3. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






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






5. 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.






6. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






7. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






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






9. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






10. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






11. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






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






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






14. Make a blueprint of






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






16. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






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






19. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






20. An idea that is implied or suggested






21. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






22. 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.






23. Main character in fiction or drama






24. 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.






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






26. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






27. To examine carefully; study closely






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






29. A system of scaffolds






30. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






31. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






32. 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






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






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






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






36. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






37. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






38. Main character in fiction or drama






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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. Describe in vivid detail






49. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






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







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