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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






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






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






4. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






5. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






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






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






8. Describe in vivid detail






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






10. 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.






11. Describe in vivid detail






12. The study of the sources and development of words






13. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






15. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






16. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






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






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






20. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






21. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






23. A system of scaffolds






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






25. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






26. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






27. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






28. Showing little if any change






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






30. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






33. Classifying people by their traits.






34. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






35. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






36. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






38. Assert or affirm strongly






39. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






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






42. Character pitted against protagonist






43. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






44. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






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






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






47. 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.






48. Tell how things are alike and different






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






50. Testimony that is presented word for word.