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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. 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.
Informative/explanatory text
Parallel Structure
Aside
Pacing
2. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Euphemism
Speaker
Synthesize
Evaluate
3. Tell how things are alike and different
Artistic medium
Motivation
Etymology
Compare and Contrast
4. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Aside
Simile
First person
Tragedy
5. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Onomatopoeia
Objective Summary
Aside
Simile
6. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Information
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Argument
Connotation
7. Character pitted against protagonist
Cross - curricular
Antagonist
Inference
Symbolism
8. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Act
Oxymoron
Flat
Atmosphere
9. An idea that is implied or suggested
Point of View
Connotation
Formal
Scene
10. Showing little if any change
Plot
Draft
Static
Setting
11. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Figurative language
Rising Action
Round
Dialogue
12. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Informative/explanatory text
Onomatopoeia
Pacing
Character
13. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Climax
Conflict
Speaker
Motivation
14. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Aside
Complex
Internal Conflict
Transition
15. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Draft
Conflict
Direct Quotation
Third person
16. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Tone
Alliteration
Non -fiction
17. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Third person
Act
Cross - curricular
Symbolism
18. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Phrases
Independent
Syntax
Textual evidence
19. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Repetition
Compare and Contrast
Draft
Tragedy
20. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Third person
Character
Resolution
Rising Action
21. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Citation
Refrain
Character
22. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Complex
Round
Hero (tragic)
Paraphrase
23. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Falling action
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Soliloquy
Formal
24. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Non -fiction
Internal Conflict
Narrative
Third Person Limited
25. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Conflict
Nuances
Falling action
Act
26. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Paraphrase
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Oxymoron
Refrain
27. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Hero (tragic)
Cite
In -text citation
Soliloquy
28. 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.
Subordinate
Indirect
Conjunctive adverbs
Cross - curricular
29. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Dialogue
Paraphrase
Fallacious reasoning
Scaffolding
30. 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.
Dialogue
Third Person Omniscient
Personification
Aside
31. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Plot
Subordinate
Objective Summary
32. Main character in fiction or drama
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Protagonist
Objective Summary
Simile
33. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Refrain
Artistic medium
Setting
34. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Subordinate
Scaffolding
Nuances
35. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Symbolism
Flashback
Draft
Objective Summary
36. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Information
Cross - curricular
Summarize
Symbolism
37. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Refrain
Parallel Structure
Protagonist
Claim
38. Describe in vivid detail
Alliteration
Plot
Delineate
Compare and Contrast
39. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Scaffolding
In -text citation
Paraphrase
Personification
40. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Euphemism
Transition
Synthesize
Pacing
41. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Parallel Structure
Flat
Fiction
Imagery
42. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Theme
Counterclaim
Refrain
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
43. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Summarize
Speaker
Summarize
44. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Stereotype
Resolution
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Independent
45. The study of the sources and development of words
Draft
Resolution
Etymology
Direct
46. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Pacing
Independent
Act
Subordinate
47. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Exposition
Pathos
Euphemism
Refrain
48. A system of scaffolds
Resolution
Speaker
Scaffolding
Socratic Seminar
49. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Draft
Tone
Conjunctive adverbs
In -text citation
50. Examine and judge carefully.
Soliloquy
Euphemism
Citation
Evaluate
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