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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Plot
Resolution
Sensory language
2. To examine carefully; study closely
Synthesize
Analyze
First person
Claim
3. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Sensory language
Draft
Motivation
4. Assert or affirm strongly
Stanza
Independent
Conjunctive adverbs
Claim
5. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Suspense
Textual evidence
Plagiarism
Dialogue
6. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Etymology
Transition
Cite
Scaffolding
7. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Stereotype
Counterclaim
Repetition
Conjunctive adverbs
8. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Sensory language
Cite
Counterclaim
Plot
9. 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.
Fallacious reasoning
Flashback
Personification
Symbolism
10. Crediting source within the paper.
Formal
Climax
In -text citation
Artistic medium
11. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Cross - curricular
Plagiarism
Static
Fiction
12. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Static
Formal
First person
Direct
13. Character pitted against protagonist
Mood
Imagery
Antagonist
Mood
14. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Sensory language
Point of View
Artistic medium
15. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Draft
Speaker
Dialogue
Setting
16. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Exposition
Cite
Scene
17. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Claim
Oxymoron
Protagonist
18. Classifying people by their traits.
Repetition
Protagonist
Stereotype
Act
19. Crediting source within the paper.
Syntax
Antagonist
In -text citation
Cross - curricular
20. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Symbolism
Cite
Citation
Flat
21. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
In -text citation
Rhyme
Cite
22. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Sensory language
Character
Scaffolding
23. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Euphemism
Independent
Artistic medium
Draft
24. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Hero (tragic)
Textual evidence
Tragedy
Objective Summary
25. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Antagonist
Information
Resolution
Paraphrase
26. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Citation
Conflict
Flashback
27. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Resolution
Paraphrase
Character
Inference
28. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Tragedy
Third Person Omniscient
Nuances
Subordinate
29. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Cross - curricular
Point of View
Act
30. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Antagonist
Information
Sensory language
Fiction
31. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Parallel plots
Connotation
Pacing
32. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Informative/explanatory text
Climax
Fallacious reasoning
Rising Action
33. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Cross - curricular
Paraphrase
Rhyme
Simile
34. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Third person
Paraphrase
Scaffolding
Conjunctive adverbs
35. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Point of View
Cohesion
Complex
Aside
36. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Setting
Non -fiction
Atmosphere
Symbolism
37. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Textual evidence
Synthesize
Soliloquy
Indirect
38. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Analyze
Claim
Rhyme
39. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Synthesize
Informative/explanatory text
Argument
Etymology
40. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Information
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
Evaluate
41. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Soliloquy
Formal
Complex
Hero (tragic)
42. An idea that is implied or suggested
Analyze
Summarize
Connotation
Evaluate
43. 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.
Socratic Seminar
Antagonist
Synthesize
Climax
44. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Rhetoric
Act
Exposition
45. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Suspense
Figurative language
Symbolism
Tragedy
46. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Conflict
Point of View
Socratic Seminar
Third Person Limited
47. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Personification
Setting
Analyze
Rhyme
48. Showing little if any change
Static
Soliloquy
Third Person Limited
Third Person Limited
49. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Conjunctive adverbs
Tragedy
Informative/explanatory text
Suspense
50. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Scaffolding
Imagery
Protagonist
Motivation