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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Non -fiction
Tone
Indirect
2. To examine carefully; study closely
Oxymoron
Analyze
Summarize
Formal
3. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Onomatopoeia
Information
Falling action
Artistic medium
4. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Fiction
Resolution
Antagonist
5. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Symbolism
Stereotype
Sensory language
6. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Antagonist
Soliloquy
Syntax
7. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
In -text citation
Independent
Onomatopoeia
Formal
8. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Cite
Textual evidence
Pathos
Dialogue
9. 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
Flashback
Repetition
Alliteration
10. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Falling action
Plagiarism
Imagery
Non -fiction
11. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Conflict
Plagiarism
Nuances
Oxymoron
12. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Cross - curricular
Protagonist
Suspense
Sensory language
13. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Complex
Sensory language
Dialogue
14. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Conflict
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
Compare and Contrast
15. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Tragedy
Hero (tragic)
Scene
16. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Euphemism
Flat
Atmosphere
Parallel plots
17. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Internal Conflict
Figurative language
Informative/explanatory text
Synthesize
18. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Tone
Stanza
Evaluate
Fallacious reasoning
19. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Third person
Narrative
Character
20. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Flat
Tone
Cite
Plagiarism
21. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Inference
Alliteration
Parallel plots
Mood
22. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Scene
Rhetoric
Rising Action
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
23. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Symbolism
Suspense
In -text citation
24. Main character in fiction or drama
Direct Quotation
In -text citation
Protagonist
Third person
25. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Stereotype
Direct Quotation
Personification
Information
26. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Claim
Imagery
Oxymoron
Transition
27. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Plot
Imagery
Indirect
Repetition
28. 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.
Tragedy
Independent
Suspense
Aside
29. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Plagiarism
Plot
Symbolism
Phrases
30. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Internal Conflict
Non -fiction
Stereotype
Parallel plots
31. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Synthesize
Stereotype
Objective Summary
Direct Quotation
32. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Summarize
Rhyme
Synthesize
33. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Alliteration
Summarize
Argument
34. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Hero (tragic)
Sensory language
Third Person Omniscient
35. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Figurative language
Subordinate
Oxymoron
Inference
36. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Symbolism
Parallel Structure
Cite
Etymology
37. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Pathos
Character
Exposition
Rhyme
38. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Stanza
Figurative language
Plagiarism
Compare and Contrast
39. A system of scaffolds
Cite
Scaffolding
Refrain
Delineate
40. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Cite
Draft
Suspense
41. 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.
Draft
Paraphrase
Indirect
Conflict
42. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Rhetoric
Resolution
Draft
Setting
43. Character pitted against protagonist
Delineate
Draft
Soliloquy
Antagonist
44. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Climax
Round
Personification
45. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Cite
Clause
Compare and Contrast
Flat
46. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Textual evidence
Synthesize
Formal
Euphemism
47. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Aside
Conjunctive adverbs
First person
Act
48. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Paraphrase
Stereotype
Syntax
Clause
49. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Pacing
Cohesion
Cross - curricular
Falling action
50. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Evaluate
Transition
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Parallel Structure