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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Argument
Rising Action
Characterization (indirect and direct)
2. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Formal
Simile
Parallel plots
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
3. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Transition
Fallacious reasoning
Stereotype
4. Make a blueprint of
Aside
Draft
Antagonist
Round
5. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Resolution
Nuances
Euphemism
Objective Summary
6. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Pacing
Artistic medium
Draft
Direct Quotation
7. 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.
Imagery
Third person
First person
Socratic Seminar
8. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Parallel plots
Refrain
Euphemism
9. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Evaluate
Narrative
Setting
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
10. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Nuances
Onomatopoeia
Information
Resolution
11. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Claim
Information
Alliteration
Euphemism
12. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Figurative language
Compare and Contrast
Antagonist
Narrative
13. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Suspense
Euphemism
Onomatopoeia
Cite
14. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Rhetoric
Aside
Plagiarism
Act
15. 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.
Conflict
Subordinate
Draft
Internal Conflict
16. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Climax
Theme
Setting
17. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Analyze
Mood
Fiction
18. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Draft
Argument
Rhetoric
19. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Suspense
Rising Action
Complex
20. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Plagiarism
Imagery
Formal
Scaffolding
21. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Analyze
Setting
Etymology
22. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Evaluate
Imagery
Simile
Protagonist
23. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Static
Direct Quotation
Exposition
Soliloquy
24. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Summarize
Third Person Limited
Transition
Climax
25. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Non -fiction
Pathos
Alliteration
Refrain
26. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Complex
Euphemism
Act
Direct Quotation
27. The state of cohering or sticking together
Flashback
Rhyme
Pathos
Cohesion
28. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Antagonist
Draft
Setting
Plagiarism
29. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Figurative language
Cite
Tragedy
Static
30. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Speaker
Complex
Parallel plots
Stereotype
31. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Rhetoric
Repetition
Direct
32. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Stereotype
Draft
Information
Symbolism
33. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Suspense
Inference
Clause
Synthesize
34. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Suspense
Artistic medium
Independent
Cohesion
35. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Pacing
First person
Subordinate
Alliteration
36. 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.
Protagonist
Analyze
Argument
Flashback
37. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Plagiarism
Artistic medium
Etymology
Figurative language
38. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Rhetoric
Tragedy
Rising Action
39. Give the main point or idea
Information
Euphemism
Plagiarism
Summarize
40. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Static
Citation
Rising Action
Direct
41. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Rhetoric
Protagonist
Analyze
42. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Syntax
Cross - curricular
Socratic Seminar
Characterization (indirect and direct)
43. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Oxymoron
Flashback
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Pathos
44. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Flat
Antagonist
Dialogue
45. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Fiction
Independent
Scene
Tone
46. To examine carefully; study closely
Parallel Structure
Analyze
Subordinate
Phrases
47. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Informative/explanatory text
Analyze
Rhetoric
48. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Imagery
Direct Quotation
Plot
Third person
49. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Protagonist
Inference
Rising Action
Fallacious reasoning
50. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Imagery
Rhyme
Repetition
Aside