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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. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Round
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Indirect
Third Person Omniscient
2. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Flat
First person
Nuances
Refrain
3. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Resolution
Inference
Alliteration
Independent
4. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Scene
Socratic Seminar
Independent
Pathos
5. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Phrases
Informative/explanatory text
Direct Quotation
6. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Parallel plots
Phrases
First person
Rhyme
7. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Flashback
Fallacious reasoning
Narrative
Flat
8. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Resolution
Setting
Figurative language
Complex
9. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Repetition
Flashback
Direct Quotation
Theme
10. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Imagery
Character
Cross - curricular
11. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Resolution
Protagonist
Mood
12. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Paraphrase
Connotation
Rising Action
Fiction
13. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Draft
Argument
Round
Clause
14. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Etymology
Atmosphere
Theme
Cite
15. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Simile
Rising Action
Sensory language
Conflict
16. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Euphemism
Flashback
Flat
Stereotype
17. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Refrain
Claim
Non -fiction
Phrases
18. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Third person
Dialogue
Flat
Artistic medium
19. 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.
Artistic medium
Antagonist
Third Person Omniscient
Plagiarism
20. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Tragedy
Evaluate
Setting
21. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Third Person Limited
Information
Static
Exposition
22. An idea that is implied or suggested
Mood
Rhyme
Connotation
Refrain
23. Give the main point or idea
Speaker
Clause
Complex
Summarize
24. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Oxymoron
Antagonist
Etymology
25. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
First person
Rising Action
Syntax
Fiction
26. 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.
Indirect
Analyze
Delineate
Hero (tragic)
27. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Static
Rhetoric
Scene
Plot
28. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Parallel plots
Setting
Inference
Sensory language
29. 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
Stanza
Climax
Clause
30. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Dialogue
Hero (tragic)
First person
Third Person Omniscient
31. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Conjunctive adverbs
Synthesize
Textual evidence
Figurative language
32. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Suspense
Conflict
Tone
Figurative language
33. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Suspense
Symbolism
Stanza
Clause
34. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Argument
Setting
Alliteration
Atmosphere
35. The study of the sources and development of words
Argument
Direct Quotation
Soliloquy
Etymology
36. Showing little if any change
Character
Simile
Syntax
Static
37. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Alliteration
Climax
Citation
Independent
38. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Euphemism
Cite
Plot
Delineate
39. Assert or affirm strongly
Personification
Plagiarism
Personification
Claim
40. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Textual evidence
Falling action
Narrative
Characterization (indirect and direct)
41. Crediting source within the paper.
Argument
Pathos
In -text citation
Climax
42. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Climax
Suspense
Stereotype
Rising Action
43. Character pitted against protagonist
Imagery
Antagonist
Tragedy
Rhyme
44. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Claim
Pathos
Act
Flashback
45. 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.
Imagery
Flashback
Parallel plots
Parallel Structure
46. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Draft
Nuances
Direct Quotation
Citation
47. Tell how things are alike and different
Informative/explanatory text
Parallel Structure
Indirect
Compare and Contrast
48. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Pathos
Cite
Synthesize
49. 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
Exposition
Aside
Hero (tragic)
Refrain
50. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Personification
Rhyme
Flashback