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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






2. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






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






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






5. Examine and judge carefully.






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






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






8. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






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






10. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






11. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






12. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






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






14. 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.






15. A system of scaffolds






16. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






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






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






19. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






20. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






21. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






22. Describe in vivid detail






23. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






24. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






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






26. Classifying people by their traits.






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






28. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






30. Tell how things are alike and different






31. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






32. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






33. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






35. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






36. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






37. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






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






40. Examine and judge carefully.






41. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






42. Using language effectively to please or persuade






43. Classifying people by their traits.






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






45. An idea that is implied or suggested






46. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






47. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






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






49. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






50. Method of character development in which the author reveals the personality of character through their speech - thoughts - actions - appearance - or effects of others toward the character.







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