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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Pacing
Direct Quotation
Point of View
Static
2. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Counterclaim
Resolution
Nuances
Protagonist
3. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Formal
Subordinate
Textual evidence
4. Give the main point or idea
Delineate
Summarize
Conjunctive adverbs
Claim
5. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Independent
Flashback
Character
6. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Transition
Round
Syntax
Tone
7. Describe in vivid detail
Exposition
Tone
Conjunctive adverbs
Delineate
8. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Climax
Conjunctive adverbs
Soliloquy
Falling action
9. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Cite
Act
Plot
10. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Resolution
Direct Quotation
Third person
Motivation
11. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Protagonist
Third person
12. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
First person
Third Person Omniscient
Conflict
Draft
13. 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
Independent
Argument
Fallacious reasoning
Hero (tragic)
14. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Point of View
Character
Independent
Complex
15. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Repetition
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Personification
16. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Flashback
Plagiarism
Objective Summary
Simile
17. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
In -text citation
Fallacious reasoning
Third person
Paraphrase
18. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Rhyme
Character
Claim
Third Person Limited
19. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Delineate
Suspense
Tragedy
Parallel Structure
20. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Cross - curricular
Synthesize
Counterclaim
21. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Socratic Seminar
Suspense
Formal
Third Person Limited
22. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Tragedy
Parallel Structure
Hero (tragic)
23. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Draft
Pacing
Atmosphere
Aside
24. An idea that is implied or suggested
Direct
Stanza
Connotation
Resolution
25. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Independent
Setting
First person
Refrain
26. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Personification
Objective Summary
Static
Information
27. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Analyze
Rhetoric
Static
Oxymoron
28. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Transition
Theme
Exposition
Stanza
29. Crediting source within the paper.
Sensory language
In -text citation
Conjunctive adverbs
Paraphrase
30. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Transition
Exposition
Parallel plots
Delineate
31. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Non -fiction
Scene
Draft
32. Give the main point or idea
Independent
Syntax
Information
Summarize
33. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Direct
Artistic medium
Independent
Internal Conflict
34. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Compare and Contrast
Cross - curricular
Onomatopoeia
Transition
35. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Tragedy
Socratic Seminar
Speaker
Syntax
36. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Nuances
Direct
Stanza
37. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Draft
Rhetoric
Oxymoron
Climax
38. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Figurative language
Motivation
Independent
Tone
39. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Refrain
Hero (tragic)
Rhyme
Falling action
40. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Stanza
Clause
Theme
Citation
41. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Parallel Structure
Dialogue
Antagonist
Antagonist
42. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Rhetoric
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Theme
Flat
43. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Parallel Structure
Tragedy
First person
44. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Flashback
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Exposition
45. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Climax
First person
Rhetoric
Parallel Structure
46. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Cohesion
Conflict
Point of View
Subordinate
47. Assert or affirm strongly
Speaker
Mood
Symbolism
Claim
48. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Third Person Limited
Pathos
Rhetoric
Synthesize
49. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Counterclaim
Textual evidence
Plot
50. Make a blueprint of
Third Person Limited
Draft
Narrative
Independent