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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. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Falling action
Antagonist
Summarize
Setting
2. To examine carefully; study closely
Independent
Pathos
Analyze
Resolution
3. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Non -fiction
Dialogue
Speaker
4. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Simile
Scaffolding
Analyze
5. Crediting source within the paper.
Flashback
Indirect
Stereotype
In -text citation
6. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Cohesion
Speaker
Flashback
Alliteration
7. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Parallel plots
Personification
Conjunctive adverbs
Independent
8. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Summarize
Hero (tragic)
Round
9. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Onomatopoeia
Clause
Stereotype
Pathos
10. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Cite
Imagery
Setting
Summarize
11. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Euphemism
Repetition
Refrain
Counterclaim
12. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Information
Third Person Omniscient
Speaker
13. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.
Argument
Socratic Seminar
Draft
Direct Quotation
14. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Syntax
Exposition
Cohesion
Soliloquy
15. An idea that is implied or suggested
Summarize
Third Person Omniscient
Connotation
Syntax
16. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Theme
Third Person Limited
Subordinate
Information
17. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Scene
Tone
Complex
Plagiarism
18. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Internal Conflict
Soliloquy
Theme
Pathos
19. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Textual evidence
Subordinate
In -text citation
Nuances
20. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Direct
Paraphrase
Stereotype
Cross - curricular
21. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Setting
Clause
Symbolism
Mood
22. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Socratic Seminar
Cross - curricular
Citation
Suspense
23. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Fallacious reasoning
Speaker
Motivation
Falling action
24. Crediting source within the paper.
Point of View
Euphemism
In -text citation
Scene
25. Make a blueprint of
Motivation
Draft
Clause
Onomatopoeia
26. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Protagonist
Cohesion
27. Give the main point or idea
Fiction
Textual evidence
Cohesion
Summarize
28. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Point of View
Personification
Paraphrase
Syntax
29. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Etymology
Tragedy
Tone
30. Showing little if any change
Round
Motivation
Static
Independent
31. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Plagiarism
Cite
Mood
Analyze
32. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Artistic medium
Plagiarism
Imagery
Tone
33. 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.
Suspense
Indirect
Cite
Transition
34. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Direct
Artistic medium
Syntax
Plot
35. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Resolution
Tone
Synthesize
Etymology
36. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Socratic Seminar
Exposition
Phrases
37. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Oxymoron
Conjunctive adverbs
Summarize
Independent
38. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
In -text citation
Direct Quotation
Falling action
Climax
39. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Stanza
Setting
Figurative language
40. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Summarize
Imagery
Resolution
Act
41. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Antagonist
Setting
Conflict
Direct
42. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Tone
Setting
Argument
Act
43. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Speaker
Suspense
Parallel Structure
44. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Dialogue
Pacing
Character
Conjunctive adverbs
45. 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
Informative/explanatory text
First person
Etymology
46. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Personification
Objective Summary
Static
Third Person Limited
47. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Suspense
Sensory language
Scaffolding
Internal Conflict
48. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Round
Figurative language
Atmosphere
Citation
49. 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.
Round
Rhyme
Aside
Non -fiction
50. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Theme
Conflict
Characterization (indirect and direct)