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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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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. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Nuances
Soliloquy
Cohesion
Flat
2. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Third Person Omniscient
Nuances
Formal
3. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Protagonist
Mood
Parallel Structure
Plagiarism
4. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Fallacious reasoning
Clause
Onomatopoeia
Mood
5. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Indirect
Objective Summary
Refrain
Point of View
6. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Draft
Rhetoric
Indirect
7. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Sensory language
Subordinate
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Flat
8. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Clause
Citation
Evaluate
Cohesion
9. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Summarize
Mood
Tone
Direct Quotation
10. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Transition
Plot
Artistic medium
Cross - curricular
11. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Personification
Dialogue
Pathos
12. Showing little if any change
Symbolism
Static
Third person
Narrative
13. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Theme
Fallacious reasoning
Cite
Point of View
14. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Complex
Internal Conflict
Alliteration
Synthesize
15. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Tragedy
Euphemism
Independent
Scaffolding
16. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Rhyme
First person
Counterclaim
17. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Evaluate
Flat
Non -fiction
Conflict
18. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Simile
Plot
Etymology
19. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Scaffolding
Theme
Conjunctive adverbs
Scene
20. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Round
Complex
Clause
21. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Non -fiction
Aside
Refrain
22. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Narrative
Point of View
Speaker
Setting
23. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Parallel Structure
Antagonist
Act
Pacing
24. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Refrain
Draft
Dialogue
Parallel plots
25. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Internal Conflict
Atmosphere
Cross - curricular
Pathos
26. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
First person
Citation
Cite
Symbolism
27. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Imagery
Pacing
Internal Conflict
Clause
28. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Point of View
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Suspense
Citation
29. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Speaker
Direct
Exposition
30. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Complex
Analyze
Character
Personification
31. The state of cohering or sticking together
Falling action
Cohesion
Phrases
Third Person Limited
32. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Plagiarism
Cite
Euphemism
Phrases
33. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Nuances
Exposition
Motivation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
34. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Figurative language
Formal
Simile
Third Person Limited
35. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Theme
Climax
Scaffolding
36. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Hero (tragic)
Independent
Falling action
Information
37. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Independent
Artistic medium
Static
Clause
38. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Inference
Fiction
Analyze
Indirect
39. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Conjunctive adverbs
Personification
Cross - curricular
Flashback
40. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Nuances
Theme
Scene
Characterization (indirect and direct)
41. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Suspense
Symbolism
Counterclaim
Objective Summary
42. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Figurative language
Narrative
Rising Action
Oxymoron
43. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Direct
Personification
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Onomatopoeia
44. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Textual evidence
Sensory language
Plagiarism
Third Person Limited
45. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Parallel plots
Pacing
Direct Quotation
46. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Speaker
Act
Falling action
Exposition
47. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Point of View
Theme
Rhetoric
Character
48. 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
Oxymoron
Plot
Hero (tragic)
Connotation
49. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Connotation
Clause
50. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Informative/explanatory text
Transition
Soliloquy
Climax