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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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english
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1. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Independent
Cite
First person
Connotation
2. Character pitted against protagonist
Cite
Setting
Analyze
Antagonist
3. 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
Hero (tragic)
Rising Action
Dialogue
Tone
4. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Suspense
Stanza
Complex
Setting
5. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Analyze
Climax
Theme
6. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Fiction
Antagonist
Informative/explanatory text
Scene
7. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Scene
Direct
Soliloquy
Flat
8. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Repetition
Euphemism
Third person
Round
9. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Flat
Speaker
Antagonist
10. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Plot
Cross - curricular
Artistic medium
Conflict
11. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Inference
Syntax
Information
Rhetoric
12. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Information
Parallel plots
Plagiarism
Internal Conflict
13. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Setting
Indirect
Phrases
14. Examine and judge carefully.
Third Person Omniscient
Evaluate
Figurative language
First person
15. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Argument
Protagonist
Hero (tragic)
Rhetoric
16. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Plagiarism
Cite
Draft
17. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Pathos
Non -fiction
Etymology
Inference
18. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Rising Action
Third Person Limited
Euphemism
Symbolism
19. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Inference
Figurative language
Parallel plots
20. 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.
Argument
Narrative
Euphemism
Aside
21. Describe in vivid detail
Aside
Flat
Delineate
Motivation
22. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Cite
Informative/explanatory text
Scaffolding
23. The study of the sources and development of words
Stanza
Analyze
Etymology
Cohesion
24. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Draft
Phrases
Parallel Structure
Alliteration
25. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Direct
Symbolism
Subordinate
26. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Symbolism
Speaker
Artistic medium
Pathos
27. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Inference
Argument
Formal
Cite
28. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Formal
Plot
29. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Tragedy
Scene
Symbolism
Sensory language
30. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Direct Quotation
Flat
Tragedy
Transition
31. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Artistic medium
Euphemism
First person
Characterization (indirect and direct)
32. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Nuances
Plot
Scene
Stereotype
33. The state of cohering or sticking together
Refrain
Exposition
Cohesion
Rhyme
34. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Third Person Limited
Non -fiction
Etymology
Falling action
35. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Flat
Exposition
Direct
36. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Informative/explanatory text
Textual evidence
Transition
Refrain
37. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Phrases
Inference
Personification
Exposition
38. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Argument
Resolution
Pacing
Non -fiction
39. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Setting
Character
Motivation
Third Person Omniscient
40. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Parallel plots
Fallacious reasoning
Atmosphere
Plagiarism
41. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Rhyme
Pathos
Subordinate
42. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
First person
Plagiarism
Flat
43. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Artistic medium
Non -fiction
Round
44. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Cite
Non -fiction
Speaker
Conflict
45. Classifying people by their traits.
Plot
Exposition
Stereotype
Exposition
46. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Figurative language
Conjunctive adverbs
Claim
Draft
47. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Hero (tragic)
Cross - curricular
Stanza
Refrain
48. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Alliteration
Rhyme
Counterclaim
Non -fiction
49. Assert or affirm strongly
Onomatopoeia
Claim
Argument
Counterclaim
50. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Direct
Formal
Third person
Transition
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