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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. Classifying people by their traits.






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






4. Testimony that is presented word for word.






5. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






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






7. Tell how things are alike and different






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






9. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






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






11. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






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






13. Lacking stimulating characteristics






14. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






16. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






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






19. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






20. Main character in fiction or drama






21. Make a blueprint of






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






23. Character pitted against protagonist






24. Make a blueprint of






25. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






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






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






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






29. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






30. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






31. Crediting source within the paper.






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






33. 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.






34. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






35. Showing little if any change






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






44. A system of scaffolds






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






50. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party