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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. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Rising Action
Pacing
Informative/explanatory text
2. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Mood
Internal Conflict
Clause
3. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Nuances
Euphemism
Figurative language
4. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Tragedy
Exposition
Rhetoric
Imagery
5. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Summarize
Phrases
Draft
6. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Artistic medium
Protagonist
Symbolism
Socratic Seminar
7. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Counterclaim
Indirect
Act
Alliteration
8. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Paraphrase
Scene
Tragedy
Nuances
9. 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.
Draft
Rhyme
Aside
Conjunctive adverbs
10. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Parallel Structure
Citation
Soliloquy
Formal
11. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Falling action
Information
Resolution
Imagery
12. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Argument
Repetition
Claim
Aside
13. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Aside
Independent
Sensory language
14. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Rhyme
Setting
Climax
Character
15. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Pacing
Atmosphere
Mood
Independent
16. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Static
Paraphrase
Tragedy
Pacing
17. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Socratic Seminar
Phrases
Rhyme
Direct
18. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Evaluate
Draft
Sensory language
Internal Conflict
19. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Atmosphere
Parallel plots
Simile
Climax
20. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Symbolism
Parallel plots
Third Person Limited
Narrative
21. Classifying people by their traits.
Simile
Point of View
Third Person Omniscient
Stereotype
22. Make a blueprint of
Summarize
Draft
Complex
Falling action
23. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Hero (tragic)
Clause
Rising Action
Onomatopoeia
24. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Aside
Personification
Inference
Speaker
25. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Suspense
Rhyme
Pathos
Characterization (indirect and direct)
26. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Fiction
Simile
Socratic Seminar
Fallacious reasoning
27. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Informative/explanatory text
Transition
Soliloquy
Act
28. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Parallel plots
Draft
Figurative language
Refrain
29. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Cohesion
Cross - curricular
Informative/explanatory text
30. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Alliteration
Direct
Clause
31. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Tone
Symbolism
Argument
Informative/explanatory text
32. Crediting source within the paper.
Parallel plots
Clause
In -text citation
Setting
33. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Summarize
Speaker
Textual evidence
Tone
34. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Personification
Parallel plots
In -text citation
Mood
35. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Compare and Contrast
Third person
Claim
Clause
36. The state of cohering or sticking together
Conflict
Round
Hero (tragic)
Cohesion
37. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Phrases
Conflict
Argument
Setting
38. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Direct Quotation
Static
Objective Summary
Oxymoron
39. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Transition
Analyze
Aside
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.
Indirect
Pathos
Flashback
Paraphrase
41. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Direct Quotation
Independent
42. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Stanza
Delineate
Tone
Complex
43. Character pitted against protagonist
Direct Quotation
Atmosphere
Antagonist
Personification
44. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Refrain
Etymology
Cohesion
Fiction
45. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Refrain
Soliloquy
Atmosphere
Non -fiction
46. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Third Person Limited
Act
Stanza
Independent
47. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Sensory language
Parallel Structure
Analyze
Flat
48. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Round
Tragedy
Delineate
Paraphrase
49. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Conjunctive adverbs
Compare and Contrast
Conflict
50. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Rhetoric
Scaffolding
Plagiarism
Socratic Seminar