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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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1. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Atmosphere
Conflict
Tragedy
Suspense
2. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Cohesion
Refrain
Speaker
3. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Euphemism
Evaluate
Delineate
4. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Rhyme
Flashback
Conflict
5. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Internal Conflict
Rhyme
Euphemism
Socratic Seminar
6. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Plot
Aside
First person
Phrases
7. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Independent
Suspense
Speaker
Setting
8. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Symbolism
Scene
Soliloquy
Characterization (indirect and direct)
9. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Pathos
Symbolism
Phrases
Speaker
10. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Oxymoron
Cite
Counterclaim
Mood
11. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Draft
Climax
Conjunctive adverbs
12. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Counterclaim
Rhetoric
Objective Summary
Syntax
13. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Imagery
Setting
Pathos
Symbolism
14. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Paraphrase
Sensory language
Exposition
Oxymoron
15. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Clause
Direct Quotation
Draft
Symbolism
16. Crediting source within the paper.
Antagonist
Argument
Summarize
In -text citation
17. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Scene
Compare and Contrast
Parallel Structure
Onomatopoeia
18. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Flat
Setting
Textual evidence
Sensory language
19. Examine and judge carefully.
Etymology
Evaluate
Climax
Third Person Limited
20. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Compare and Contrast
Pacing
Narrative
Clause
21. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Draft
Atmosphere
Plagiarism
Textual evidence
22. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Conflict
Symbolism
Objective Summary
Motivation
23. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Transition
Socratic Seminar
Counterclaim
Conflict
24. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Narrative
Clause
Act
Transition
25. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Act
Symbolism
Speaker
26. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Stereotype
Theme
Characterization (indirect and direct)
27. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Parallel Structure
Speaker
Conflict
Pacing
28. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Tragedy
Character
Textual evidence
Protagonist
29. An idea that is implied or suggested
Third Person Omniscient
Fallacious reasoning
Connotation
Inference
30. 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
Third person
Hero (tragic)
Cite
Symbolism
31. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Non -fiction
Point of View
Objective Summary
32. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Transition
Tragedy
Citation
Symbolism
33. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Theme
Argument
Conflict
34. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Argument
Fallacious reasoning
Sensory language
Mood
35. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Transition
Flashback
Cite
Informative/explanatory text
36. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Protagonist
Draft
Imagery
Plagiarism
37. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Parallel plots
Claim
Imagery
38. A system of scaffolds
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Stereotype
Scaffolding
Repetition
39. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Parallel plots
Cross - curricular
Symbolism
Protagonist
40. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Scene
Clause
Falling action
Direct Quotation
41. Showing little if any change
Soliloquy
Static
Euphemism
Figurative language
42. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Conflict
Stereotype
Draft
Informative/explanatory text
43. The state of cohering or sticking together
Information
Cohesion
Dialogue
Narrative
44. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Act
Complex
Simile
Characterization (indirect and direct)
45. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Onomatopoeia
Third Person Limited
Non -fiction
46. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Clause
Evaluate
Round
Non -fiction
47. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Formal
Soliloquy
Citation
Antagonist
48. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Character
Plot
Flashback
Symbolism
49. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Counterclaim
Oxymoron
Climax
Tragedy
50. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Cohesion
Complex
Phrases
Third person