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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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1. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Conjunctive adverbs
Formal
Parallel plots
Climax
2. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Exposition
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Counterclaim
Parallel plots
3. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Soliloquy
Third person
Subordinate
4. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Character
Mood
Clause
Cohesion
5. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Act
Parallel Structure
Citation
6. The state of cohering or sticking together
Synthesize
Falling action
Cohesion
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
7. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Euphemism
Paraphrase
Cohesion
Third Person Limited
8. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Narrative
Sensory language
Evaluate
First person
9. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Information
Conjunctive adverbs
Resolution
Third person
10. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Non -fiction
Nuances
Rhyme
Non -fiction
11. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Personification
Conjunctive adverbs
Sensory language
12. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Flat
Personification
In -text citation
13. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Falling action
Character
Mood
Scene
14. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Cross - curricular
Figurative language
Climax
Clause
15. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Tragedy
Paraphrase
Aside
Cross - curricular
16. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Evaluate
Third person
Plot
17. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Imagery
Counterclaim
Transition
Symbolism
18. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Round
Resolution
Sensory language
19. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Symbolism
Non -fiction
Round
20. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Delineate
Narrative
Compare and Contrast
21. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Oxymoron
Flat
Alliteration
22. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Subordinate
Resolution
Informative/explanatory text
Information
23. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Pacing
Conflict
Imagery
Setting
24. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Tragedy
Artistic medium
Evaluate
Parallel plots
25. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Direct Quotation
Symbolism
Figurative language
Draft
26. 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.
Theme
Repetition
Socratic Seminar
First person
27. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Plot
Pathos
Syntax
Formal
28. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Narrative
Imagery
Personification
Claim
29. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Independent
Synthesize
Atmosphere
30. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Internal Conflict
Textual evidence
Summarize
Fiction
31. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Round
Fiction
Etymology
Conjunctive adverbs
32. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Fallacious reasoning
Information
Plagiarism
Cohesion
33. A system of scaffolds
Pathos
Transition
Artistic medium
Scaffolding
34. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Citation
Scene
Euphemism
Nuances
35. 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.
Alliteration
Flat
Flashback
Delineate
36. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Suspense
Sensory language
Plot
Euphemism
37. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Conflict
Protagonist
Narrative
Third Person Omniscient
38. Character pitted against protagonist
First person
Antagonist
Parallel plots
Stanza
39. 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.
Tone
Clause
Internal Conflict
Climax
40. 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.
Informative/explanatory text
Indirect
Pacing
Analyze
41. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Antagonist
Nuances
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
42. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Conjunctive adverbs
Paraphrase
Alliteration
Independent
43. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Syntax
Argument
Motivation
Direct Quotation
44. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Dialogue
Transition
Independent
Draft
45. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Parallel Structure
First person
Direct Quotation
Repetition
46. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Artistic medium
Plot
Narrative
Act
47. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Delineate
Argument
In -text citation
Textual evidence
48. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Direct Quotation
Plot
Synthesize
Act
49. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Mood
Point of View
Formal
Transition
50. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Textual evidence
Symbolism
Internal Conflict
Third person