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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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1. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Delineate
Flashback
Rising Action
Theme
2. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Third Person Limited
Cohesion
Syntax
3. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Cohesion
Fallacious reasoning
Suspense
Oxymoron
4. Crediting source within the paper.
Third person
Fiction
In -text citation
Parallel Structure
5. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Euphemism
Setting
Parallel Structure
Objective Summary
6. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Rhetoric
Claim
Alliteration
7. An idea that is implied or suggested
Third Person Limited
Connotation
Formal
Tone
8. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Draft
Onomatopoeia
Aside
Third Person Omniscient
9. 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.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rhetoric
Internal Conflict
Conjunctive adverbs
10. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Claim
Tone
Clause
Internal Conflict
11. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Hero (tragic)
Atmosphere
Scene
Third Person Omniscient
12. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Subordinate
Round
Tragedy
Textual evidence
13. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Informative/explanatory text
Imagery
Motivation
Third person
14. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Citation
Dialogue
Oxymoron
Climax
15. Assert or affirm strongly
Antagonist
Aside
Claim
Etymology
16. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Third Person Limited
Objective Summary
Conflict
Clause
17. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Motivation
Citation
Speaker
Conflict
18. 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.
Socratic Seminar
Stereotype
Conflict
Fallacious reasoning
19. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Artistic medium
Oxymoron
Direct Quotation
Pacing
20. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Narrative
Scene
Subordinate
21. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Socratic Seminar
Nuances
Personification
Soliloquy
22. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Compare and Contrast
Scaffolding
Character
23. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
In -text citation
Suspense
Simile
24. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Phrases
Alliteration
Scene
25. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Plot
Subordinate
Tragedy
Oxymoron
26. Main character in fiction or drama
Symbolism
Protagonist
Third Person Limited
Paraphrase
27. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Delineate
Exposition
Subordinate
Speaker
28. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Internal Conflict
Point of View
Internal Conflict
Theme
29. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Parallel Structure
Stereotype
First person
30. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Symbolism
Information
Direct Quotation
31. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Suspense
Stanza
Phrases
Protagonist
32. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Cite
Non -fiction
Rhyme
33. To examine carefully; study closely
Mood
Scene
Cross - curricular
Analyze
34. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Indirect
Mood
Setting
Indirect
35. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Transition
Syntax
Suspense
Nuances
36. Showing little if any change
Indirect
Exposition
Hero (tragic)
Static
37. Tell how things are alike and different
Simile
Motivation
Compare and Contrast
Hero (tragic)
38. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Antagonist
Draft
Cross - curricular
Argument
39. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Refrain
In -text citation
Flat
Characterization (indirect and direct)
40. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Character
Simile
Refrain
41. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Cross - curricular
Rhetoric
Alliteration
Parallel plots
42. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Non -fiction
Conjunctive adverbs
Refrain
43. 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
Antagonist
Compare and Contrast
Parallel Structure
44. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Figurative language
Narrative
Personification
Symbolism
45. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Parallel Structure
Inference
Euphemism
Fiction
46. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Transition
Delineate
Parallel plots
Simile
47. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Conflict
Informative/explanatory text
Resolution
Climax
48. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Personification
Synthesize
Hero (tragic)
Independent
49. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Argument
Draft
Refrain
Syntax
50. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Personification
Parallel Structure
Parallel plots
Round