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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






2. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






3. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






4. Crediting source within the paper.






5. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






6. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






7. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






8. Tell how things are alike and different






9. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






10. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






11. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






12. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






13. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






14. A system of scaffolds






15. To examine carefully; study closely






16. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






17. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






18. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






19. 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.






20. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






21. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






22. Showing little if any change






23. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






24. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






25. Classifying people by their traits.






26. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






27. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






28. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






29. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






30. Make a blueprint of






31. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






32. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






33. 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.






34. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






35. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






36. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






37. 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.






38. 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.






39. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






40. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






41. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






42. Showing little if any change






43. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






44. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






45. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






46. 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.






47. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






48. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






49. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






50. Crediting source within the paper.