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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Argument
Nuances
Narrative
Internal Conflict
2. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Rising Action
Plagiarism
Fallacious reasoning
Connotation
3. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Parallel plots
Third Person Omniscient
Synthesize
Subordinate
4. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rising Action
Complex
Stanza
Rhyme
5. Describe in vivid detail
Rhyme
Complex
Delineate
First person
6. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Citation
Scene
Analyze
7. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Complex
Simile
Information
Point of View
8. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Atmosphere
Plot
Soliloquy
First person
9. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Mood
Scaffolding
Plot
Analyze
10. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Artistic medium
Repetition
Falling action
Alliteration
11. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Static
Exposition
Falling action
Subordinate
12. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Etymology
Pacing
Plagiarism
Antagonist
13. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Figurative language
Complex
Scaffolding
14. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Atmosphere
Non -fiction
Narrative
Pathos
15. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Argument
Motivation
Plagiarism
Cohesion
16. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Scene
Conjunctive adverbs
Suspense
17. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Euphemism
Exposition
Pacing
18. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Rhyme
Symbolism
Direct Quotation
Fiction
19. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct Quotation
Oxymoron
Narrative
Direct
20. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Conflict
Non -fiction
Compare and Contrast
Fiction
21. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Rhetoric
Parallel Structure
Resolution
Symbolism
22. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Informative/explanatory text
Cohesion
Climax
23. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Soliloquy
Claim
Atmosphere
24. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Draft
Dialogue
Atmosphere
Plot
25. Make a blueprint of
Transition
Rhyme
Draft
Fiction
26. To examine carefully; study closely
Plot
Characterization (indirect and direct)
In -text citation
Analyze
27. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Direct
Summarize
Third person
Symbolism
28. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Informative/explanatory text
Rhyme
First person
Speaker
29. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Climax
Symbolism
Rhetoric
Artistic medium
30. Make a blueprint of
Argument
Connotation
Fiction
Draft
31. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Climax
Paraphrase
Fiction
Sensory language
32. An idea that is implied or suggested
Argument
Connotation
Stanza
Hero (tragic)
33. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Transition
Pacing
Dialogue
Rhetoric
34. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Repetition
Tone
Parallel plots
Nuances
35. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Repetition
Figurative language
Informative/explanatory text
36. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Cross - curricular
Paraphrase
Oxymoron
37. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Third person
Conflict
Scene
Oxymoron
38. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Rhyme
Paraphrase
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Subordinate
39. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Stanza
Narrative
Cross - curricular
Summarize
40. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Textual evidence
Third Person Limited
Sensory language
Third person
41. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Rhyme
Syntax
Parallel Structure
42. Showing little if any change
Formal
Imagery
Mood
Static
43. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Plagiarism
Setting
Hero (tragic)
Summarize
44. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Delineate
Analyze
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Parallel Structure
45. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Oxymoron
Climax
Phrases
46. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Nuances
Paraphrase
Euphemism
Delineate
47. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Resolution
Static
Citation
Third person
48. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Tone
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Tone
Repetition
49. Classifying people by their traits.
Falling action
Stereotype
Rising Action
Internal Conflict
50. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Tragedy
Personification
Clause