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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






2. 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.






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






4. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






5. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






6. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






7. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






9. Classifying people by their traits.






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






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






12. Using language effectively to please or persuade






13. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






14. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






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






17. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






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






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






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.






21. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






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






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






24. Using language effectively to please or persuade






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






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






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






28. Main character in fiction or drama






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






30. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






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






33. Examine and judge carefully.






34. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






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






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






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






38. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






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. A system of scaffolds






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






42. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






43. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






44. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






45. Character pitted against protagonist






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






47. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






48. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






49. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






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