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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. 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.






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






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






4. Tell how things are alike and different






5. Make a blueprint of






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






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






8. To examine carefully; study closely






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






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






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






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






13. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






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






16. 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.






17. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






18. The state of cohering or sticking together






19. 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






20. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






21. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






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






23. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






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






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






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






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






29. Describe in vivid detail






30. Character pitted against protagonist






31. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






32. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






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






34. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






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






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






37. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






38. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






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






40. Assert or affirm strongly






41. Crediting source within the paper.






42. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






44. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






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






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






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






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






49. Lacking stimulating characteristics






50. Crediting source within the paper.