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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Fallacious reasoning
Parallel Structure
Round
Symbolism
2. 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.
Rhetoric
Internal Conflict
Motivation
Setting
3. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Transition
Suspense
Static
Internal Conflict
4. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Phrases
Direct Quotation
In -text citation
5. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Repetition
Alliteration
Citation
Flat
6. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Transition
Stanza
Draft
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
7. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Flat
Rhyme
Nuances
8. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Flashback
Point of View
Fallacious reasoning
Sensory language
9. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Static
Flashback
Refrain
Rising Action
10. The narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening.
Imagery
Third Person Omniscient
Plagiarism
Tone
11. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Argument
Stereotype
Non -fiction
12. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Imagery
Protagonist
Inference
Formal
13. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Textual evidence
Independent
Rhetoric
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
14. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Motivation
Inference
Delineate
Paraphrase
15. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Character
Evaluate
Speaker
Direct Quotation
16. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Stanza
Resolution
Character
Independent
17. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Symbolism
Fallacious reasoning
Personification
Sensory language
18. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Internal Conflict
Antagonist
Inference
19. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Pacing
Paraphrase
Protagonist
20. Give the main point or idea
Independent
Personification
Flat
Summarize
21. Tell how things are alike and different
Counterclaim
Informative/explanatory text
Internal Conflict
Compare and Contrast
22. 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.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Formal
Indirect
Independent
23. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Direct
Formal
Nuances
Etymology
24. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Claim
Theme
Rhetoric
Direct
25. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Independent
Pathos
Paraphrase
26. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Rising Action
Onomatopoeia
First person
Flashback
27. Make a blueprint of
Compare and Contrast
Pacing
Draft
Speaker
28. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Simile
Third Person Omniscient
29. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Symbolism
Falling action
Protagonist
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
30. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Evaluate
Scene
Tragedy
Third Person Omniscient
31. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Round
Direct
Cohesion
Point of View
32. A system of scaffolds
Dialogue
Scaffolding
Phrases
Rising Action
33. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Information
Sensory language
Draft
Falling action
34. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Cohesion
Inference
Soliloquy
Rhyme
35. Describe in vivid detail
Imagery
Complex
Fiction
Delineate
36. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Connotation
Hero (tragic)
Parallel plots
Stereotype
37. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Stereotype
Theme
Stereotype
Alliteration
38. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Alliteration
Cite
Aside
Climax
39. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Conflict
Dialogue
Setting
Oxymoron
40. The narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening.
Scene
Third Person Omniscient
Information
Narrative
41. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Textual evidence
First person
Counterclaim
42. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Claim
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Compare and Contrast
Characterization (indirect and direct)
43. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Socratic Seminar
Fiction
Clause
Clause
44. Classifying people by their traits.
Delineate
Stereotype
Protagonist
Resolution
45. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Cite
Rhetoric
Syntax
46. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Scene
Plagiarism
Euphemism
Paraphrase
47. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Resolution
Fiction
Theme
48. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Stereotype
Information
Onomatopoeia
Climax
49. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Round
Phrases
Speaker
Stanza
50. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Parallel Structure
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Independent
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