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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. Make a blueprint of






3. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






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






5. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






7. Testimony that is presented word for word.






8. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






9. Crediting source within the paper.






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






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






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






13. Give the main point or idea






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






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






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






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






18. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






19. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






20. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






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






22. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






23. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






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






25. 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.






26. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






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






28. Character pitted against protagonist






29. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






31. A system of scaffolds






32. 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.






33. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






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






35. To examine carefully; study closely






36. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






37. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






38. Tell how things are alike and different






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






40. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






41. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






42. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






43. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






44. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






45. Showing little if any change






46. Main character in fiction or drama






47. Main character in fiction or drama






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






49. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






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