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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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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Conflict
Artistic medium
Symbolism
Clause
2. Describe in vivid detail
Theme
Rhetoric
Delineate
Flat
3. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Character
Rhyme
Speaker
Citation
4. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Mood
Conflict
Rhyme
Tone
5. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Connotation
Third Person Limited
Oxymoron
6. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Inference
Objective Summary
Plagiarism
Mood
7. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Imagery
Mood
Clause
Transition
8. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Exposition
Paraphrase
First person
9. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Etymology
Soliloquy
Imagery
Figurative language
10. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Alliteration
Refrain
Character
Phrases
11. Crediting source within the paper.
Scene
In -text citation
Atmosphere
Theme
12. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Informative/explanatory text
Symbolism
Conflict
13. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Direct
Conflict
Character
Evaluate
14. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Plot
Synthesize
Rhetoric
15. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Simile
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Connotation
Third Person Limited
16. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Inference
Alliteration
Plagiarism
Non -fiction
17. Classifying people by their traits.
Conflict
Stereotype
Flat
Scene
18. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Rhyme
Nuances
Resolution
Motivation
19. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Syntax
Cross - curricular
Falling action
20. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Static
Argument
Atmosphere
Direct
21. Showing little if any change
Symbolism
Static
Pathos
Cite
22. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Artistic medium
Sensory language
Transition
Climax
23. A convention in drama whereby a character on stage addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling that is presumed inaudible to any other character on stage.
Clause
Aside
Information
Resolution
24. Describe in vivid detail
Exposition
Delineate
Dialogue
Protagonist
25. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Subordinate
Mood
Character
Pathos
26. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Complex
Etymology
Internal Conflict
Falling action
27. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Stereotype
Transition
Formal
Round
28. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Refrain
Plagiarism
Compare and Contrast
Act
29. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Information
Onomatopoeia
Phrases
Dialogue
30. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Internal Conflict
Indirect
Tone
Oxymoron
31. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Omniscient
Rising Action
In -text citation
Third Person Limited
32. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Counterclaim
Symbolism
Argument
Character
33. A system of scaffolds
Rhyme
Scaffolding
Resolution
Third Person Omniscient
34. 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.
Evaluate
Rising Action
Compare and Contrast
Indirect
35. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Protagonist
Direct Quotation
Exposition
Socratic Seminar
36. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Euphemism
Transition
Antagonist
Symbolism
37. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Sensory language
Alliteration
Personification
Characterization (indirect and direct)
38. 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.
Evaluate
Climax
Third Person Omniscient
Fallacious reasoning
39. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Stanza
Static
Socratic Seminar
Direct
40. Examine and judge carefully.
Phrases
Compare and Contrast
Evaluate
Conjunctive adverbs
41. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Cite
Plot
Oxymoron
Third person
42. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Hero (tragic)
Dialogue
Personification
Third person
43. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Rhetoric
Conjunctive adverbs
Motivation
Nuances
44. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Scene
Conflict
Atmosphere
45. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Rising Action
Third Person Omniscient
Phrases
46. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Etymology
Imagery
In -text citation
47. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Stereotype
Narrative
Setting
Direct
48. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Paraphrase
Fallacious reasoning
Setting
Motivation
49. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Suspense
Connotation
Figurative language
Narrative
50. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Repetition
Atmosphere
Etymology
Third Person Limited