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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Using language effectively to please or persuade






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






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






4. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






5. 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.






6. Crediting source within the paper.






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






8. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






10. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






11. 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






12. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






13. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






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






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






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






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






18. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






19. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






20. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






21. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






23. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






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






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






26. Scene in a movie - play - short story - novel - or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.






27. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






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






29. Assert or affirm strongly






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






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






32. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






33. Tell how things are alike and different






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






35. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






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






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






38. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






39. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. A system of scaffolds






48. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






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