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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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1. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Mood
Nuances
Direct Quotation
Exposition
2. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Point of View
Suspense
Mood
3. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Third Person Omniscient
Cross - curricular
Tone
Argument
4. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Static
Parallel plots
Informative/explanatory text
Indirect
5. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Falling action
Rhyme
Exposition
6. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Parallel Structure
Alliteration
Symbolism
Non -fiction
7. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Setting
Act
Draft
Phrases
8. 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.
Citation
Figurative language
Protagonist
Aside
9. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Round
In -text citation
Cross - curricular
Syntax
10. Tell how things are alike and different
Symbolism
Rising Action
Mood
Compare and Contrast
11. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Informative/explanatory text
Citation
Cohesion
12. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Plagiarism
Draft
Fallacious reasoning
Flashback
13. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Citation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Conflict
14. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Synthesize
Round
Conflict
Scaffolding
15. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Figurative language
Nuances
Draft
Claim
16. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Euphemism
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Imagery
Third Person Omniscient
17. 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.
Plagiarism
Clause
Theme
Third Person Omniscient
18. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Indirect
Connotation
Theme
Character
19. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Scene
Climax
Personification
Rhetoric
20. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Draft
Repetition
Direct Quotation
Informative/explanatory text
21. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Informative/explanatory text
Theme
Aside
Citation
22. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Synthesize
Simile
Protagonist
23. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Clause
Point of View
Artistic medium
Draft
24. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Analyze
Personification
Speaker
25. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
First person
Syntax
Complex
26. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Independent
Cross - curricular
Claim
Setting
27. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Soliloquy
Information
Textual evidence
Resolution
28. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Paraphrase
Syntax
Imagery
29. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Information
Narrative
Flat
Conflict
30. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Artistic medium
Transition
Antagonist
Flat
31. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Euphemism
Direct Quotation
Atmosphere
In -text citation
32. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Motivation
First person
Rhetoric
Phrases
33. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Cite
Conjunctive adverbs
Independent
34. Tell how things are alike and different
Rhetoric
Compare and Contrast
Stereotype
Personification
35. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Alliteration
Climax
Independent
36. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Stanza
Argument
Analyze
Counterclaim
37. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Point of View
Objective Summary
Onomatopoeia
Formal
38. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Textual evidence
Refrain
Informative/explanatory text
Non -fiction
39. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Non -fiction
Phrases
Mood
Information
40. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Claim
Conjunctive adverbs
Exposition
41. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Oxymoron
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Draft
Climax
42. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Non -fiction
Stanza
Etymology
Flat
43. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Pacing
Suspense
Third Person Omniscient
Analyze
44. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Socratic Seminar
Parallel plots
Fallacious reasoning
Point of View
45. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Scene
Atmosphere
Soliloquy
Complex
46. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Motivation
Tone
Third person
47. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Transition
Scaffolding
Point of View
Argument
48. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Motivation
Citation
Synthesize
49. Make a blueprint of
Symbolism
Etymology
Draft
Symbolism
50. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Complex
Repetition
Complex