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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






2. Tell how things are alike and different






3. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






4. 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.






5. Assert or affirm strongly






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






7. A hero or heroine is the principle character in a movie - novel - or play - especially one who plays a vital role in plot development and solves the conflict. (A tragic hero is usually a dignified - courageous - and high - ranking character whose eve






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






9. Examine and judge carefully.






10. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






11. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






12. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






13. The state of cohering or sticking together






14. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






15. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






16. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






17. 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.






18. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






19. Crediting source within the paper.






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






21. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






22. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






24. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






32. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






33. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






34. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






35. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






37. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






38. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






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






40. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






41. Classifying people by their traits.






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






43. Examine and judge carefully.






44. Classifying people by their traits.






45. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






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






47. Main character in fiction or drama






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






49. Give the main point or idea






50. An idea that is implied or suggested