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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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english
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1. An idea that is implied or suggested
Exposition
Connotation
Analyze
Citation
2. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Subordinate
Claim
Draft
Phrases
3. Assert or affirm strongly
Cohesion
Nuances
Claim
Sensory language
4. 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
Aside
Hero (tragic)
Subordinate
Delineate
5. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Personification
Textual evidence
Clause
6. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Cohesion
Aside
Plot
Textual evidence
7. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Rising Action
Act
Euphemism
Stanza
8. Tell how things are alike and different
Compare and Contrast
Stanza
Cohesion
Protagonist
9. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Cross - curricular
Suspense
Nuances
10. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Complex
Information
Parallel Structure
Analyze
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.
Flashback
Independent
Parallel plots
Internal Conflict
12. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Formal
Subordinate
Scaffolding
Plagiarism
13. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Speaker
Transition
Third Person Limited
Aside
14. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Evaluate
Internal Conflict
Rhyme
Objective Summary
15. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Citation
Cite
Internal Conflict
Suspense
16. Showing little if any change
Theme
Analyze
Static
Evaluate
17. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Euphemism
Symbolism
Tragedy
Speaker
18. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Syntax
Conjunctive adverbs
Suspense
Connotation
19. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Etymology
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Cohesion
20. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Fiction
Personification
Scaffolding
Paraphrase
21. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Protagonist
Conflict
Stanza
Personification
22. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Repetition
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Information
23. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Objective Summary
Conjunctive adverbs
Cohesion
Tone
24. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Figurative language
Falling action
Pacing
Objective Summary
25. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Tragedy
Indirect
Third person
Connotation
26. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Symbolism
First person
Symbolism
27. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Draft
Nuances
Mood
28. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Figurative language
Non -fiction
Inference
Sensory language
29. Main character in fiction or drama
Tragedy
Protagonist
Draft
Nuances
30. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Plagiarism
Complex
Round
Character
31. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Point of View
Refrain
Third person
Cross - curricular
32. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Parallel plots
Nuances
Citation
Third person
33. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Static
Evaluate
Hero (tragic)
34. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Refrain
Alliteration
Objective Summary
Act
35. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Aside
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Figurative language
In -text citation
36. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Hero (tragic)
Syntax
Fallacious reasoning
Cross - curricular
37. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Refrain
Draft
Pathos
Non -fiction
38. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Protagonist
Onomatopoeia
Third person
Paraphrase
39. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Scaffolding
Simile
Stanza
40. 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.
Paraphrase
Socratic Seminar
Narrative
Subordinate
41. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Analyze
Parallel Structure
Point of View
Repetition
42. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Objective Summary
Third Person Limited
Euphemism
Direct
43. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Third person
Indirect
Cross - curricular
Point of View
44. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Internal Conflict
Summarize
Protagonist
Third person
45. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Static
Draft
Resolution
Plot
46. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Simile
Informative/explanatory text
Fallacious reasoning
47. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Simile
Scaffolding
First person
48. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Synthesize
Falling action
Stanza
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
49. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Synthesize
Counterclaim
Evaluate
50. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Narrative
Point of View
Cite
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