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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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1. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Third Person Limited
Character
Scene
Delineate
2. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Conjunctive adverbs
Figurative language
Synthesize
Symbolism
3. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Paraphrase
Formal
Informative/explanatory text
Onomatopoeia
4. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Onomatopoeia
Round
Cross - curricular
5. Main character in fiction or drama
Tragedy
Protagonist
Third person
Theme
6. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Phrases
Third person
Citation
Suspense
7. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Exposition
Personification
Figurative language
Synthesize
8. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Draft
Clause
Phrases
Rhetoric
9. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Setting
Parallel plots
Evaluate
Refrain
10. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Exposition
Pathos
Pacing
Paraphrase
11. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Information
Socratic Seminar
Aside
Climax
12. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Climax
Oxymoron
Aside
13. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Evaluate
Tone
Speaker
Theme
14. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Scaffolding
Cross - curricular
Non -fiction
Flashback
15. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Exposition
Artistic medium
Syntax
16. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Repetition
Suspense
Citation
Draft
17. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Flashback
Simile
Fiction
Formal
18. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Fiction
Summarize
Stanza
Analyze
19. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Third Person Omniscient
Dialogue
Information
20. Tell how things are alike and different
Plagiarism
Compare and Contrast
Plot
Non -fiction
21. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Conjunctive adverbs
Soliloquy
Aside
Argument
22. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Argument
Draft
Plagiarism
Mood
23. Make a blueprint of
In -text citation
Draft
Plot
Theme
24. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Parallel plots
Cohesion
Soliloquy
Act
25. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Compare and Contrast
Direct
Socratic Seminar
Simile
26. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Flashback
Objective Summary
Formal
Character
27. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Tragedy
Conflict
Narrative
Syntax
28. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Evaluate
Syntax
Nuances
29. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Hero (tragic)
Non -fiction
Protagonist
30. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Textual evidence
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Simile
Tragedy
31. Character pitted against protagonist
Falling action
Delineate
Antagonist
Theme
32. Classifying people by their traits.
Oxymoron
Subordinate
Stereotype
Characterization (indirect and direct)
33. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Direct
Plot
Artistic medium
Transition
34. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Rhetoric
Citation
Mood
35. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Indirect
Plagiarism
Synthesize
Theme
36. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Draft
Paraphrase
Direct Quotation
Inference
37. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Euphemism
Cite
Alliteration
Inference
38. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Pathos
Non -fiction
Scene
Personification
39. Tell how things are alike and different
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Third person
Claim
Compare and Contrast
40. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Indirect
Paraphrase
In -text citation
Claim
41. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Onomatopoeia
Clause
Artistic medium
Resolution
42. An idea that is implied or suggested
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Connotation
Information
Compare and Contrast
43. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Refrain
Parallel Structure
Formal
44. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Independent
Informative/explanatory text
Third person
Scene
45. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Rhetoric
Onomatopoeia
Subordinate
Direct
46. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Third Person Limited
Point of View
Complex
Cross - curricular
47. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Delineate
Indirect
Information
Speaker
48. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Claim
Protagonist
Artistic medium
Sensory language
49. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Protagonist
Protagonist
Tone
50. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Complex
Conflict
Plagiarism
Falling action