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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Examine and judge carefully.






2. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






3. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






4. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






5. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






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






7. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






9. Assert or affirm strongly






10. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






11. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






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






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






14. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






15. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






16. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






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






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






19. Examine and judge carefully.






20. Make a blueprint of






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






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






23. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






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






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






26. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






27. To examine carefully; study closely






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






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






30. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






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






32. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






34. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






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






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






37. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






38. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






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






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






41. The state of cohering or sticking together






42. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






45. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






46. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






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. 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.






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






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