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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. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Conflict
Citation
First person
Syntax
2. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Resolution
Pathos
Refrain
Stereotype
3. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Motivation
Rhyme
Summarize
Point of View
4. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Alliteration
Scene
Fiction
5. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Climax
Synthesize
Paraphrase
Soliloquy
6. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Scene
Soliloquy
Artistic medium
Symbolism
7. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Narrative
Refrain
Complex
First person
8. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Symbolism
Counterclaim
Non -fiction
Refrain
9. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Euphemism
Stanza
Motivation
Plot
10. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Parallel Structure
Dialogue
Socratic Seminar
11. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Stanza
Scaffolding
Third Person Omniscient
12. Examine and judge carefully.
Complex
Citation
Evaluate
Third person
13. An idea that is implied or suggested
Analyze
Counterclaim
Plot
Connotation
14. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Sensory language
Refrain
Static
Subordinate
15. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Exposition
Protagonist
Synthesize
16. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Stanza
Fiction
Exposition
17. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Point of View
Non -fiction
Parallel plots
18. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Soliloquy
Information
Cross - curricular
Textual evidence
19. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Socratic Seminar
Pathos
Third Person Limited
Compare and Contrast
20. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Euphemism
Mood
Rhetoric
Onomatopoeia
21. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Etymology
Flat
Symbolism
Third Person Limited
22. Character pitted against protagonist
Act
Scaffolding
Antagonist
Narrative
23. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Speaker
Transition
Counterclaim
Theme
24. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Fallacious reasoning
In -text citation
Euphemism
Fiction
25. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Tone
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Cross - curricular
Fallacious reasoning
26. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Repetition
Internal Conflict
Symbolism
27. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Connotation
Third Person Limited
Stereotype
Climax
28. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Pacing
Counterclaim
Cohesion
29. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Draft
Tragedy
Third Person Limited
Soliloquy
30. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Evaluate
Third Person Limited
Connotation
Non -fiction
31. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Static
Soliloquy
Conjunctive adverbs
Plot
32. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Draft
Conflict
Clause
33. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Sensory language
Rhetoric
34. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Counterclaim
Character
Pacing
Dialogue
35. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Pacing
Plot
Information
36. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Direct
Independent
Direct
Cross - curricular
37. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Counterclaim
Pathos
Suspense
Third person
38. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Citation
Synthesize
Third person
Direct Quotation
39. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Socratic Seminar
Syntax
Summarize
40. To examine carefully; study closely
First person
Draft
Analyze
Climax
41. Classifying people by their traits.
Artistic medium
Simile
Stereotype
Personification
42. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Stereotype
Etymology
Informative/explanatory text
Parallel plots
43. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Third Person Omniscient
Counterclaim
Rising Action
Pathos
44. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Scaffolding
Argument
Onomatopoeia
Direct
45. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Round
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rhyme
Simile
46. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Act
Compare and Contrast
Stanza
Symbolism
47. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Scaffolding
Round
Narrative
Climax
48. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Setting
Sensory language
Third person
49. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Subordinate
Connotation
Suspense
Connotation
50. 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.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Aside
Refrain
Setting