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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






3. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






4. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






5. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






6. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






7. A system of scaffolds






8. Tell how things are alike and different






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






10. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






11. 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.






12. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






14. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






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






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






17. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






19. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.






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






21. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






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






23. Describe in vivid detail






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






25. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






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






27. Make a blueprint of






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






29. Testimony that is presented word for word.






30. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






31. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






32. Tell how things are alike and different






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






34. Character pitted against protagonist






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






36. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






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






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






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






40. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






41. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






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






43. Using language effectively to please or persuade






44. Assert or affirm strongly






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






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






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






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






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






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