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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. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Atmosphere
Clause
Objective Summary
2. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Static
Symbolism
Information
Subordinate
3. Assert or affirm strongly
Round
Claim
Subordinate
Personification
4. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Third Person Limited
Act
Citation
Claim
5. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Dialogue
Cross - curricular
Speaker
First person
6. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Third Person Limited
Paraphrase
Parallel Structure
Transition
7. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Clause
Argument
Symbolism
Repetition
8. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Refrain
Connotation
Personification
Flat
9. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
First person
Indirect
Scaffolding
10. 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.
Flashback
Informative/explanatory text
Motivation
Act
11. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Mood
First person
Oxymoron
Fallacious reasoning
12. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Phrases
Etymology
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Simile
13. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Compare and Contrast
Point of View
Counterclaim
Cite
14. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Setting
Plot
Objective Summary
Point of View
15. 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.
Sensory language
Cite
Delineate
Socratic Seminar
16. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Imagery
Plagiarism
Third person
Symbolism
17. 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.
Soliloquy
Pathos
Antagonist
Internal Conflict
18. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Connotation
Falling action
Fiction
Figurative language
19. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Refrain
Textual evidence
Formal
Resolution
20. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Indirect
Counterclaim
Resolution
Summarize
21. A system of scaffolds
Euphemism
Scaffolding
Plot
Third person
22. Make a blueprint of
Alliteration
Falling action
Formal
Draft
23. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Rhetoric
Onomatopoeia
Fiction
Phrases
24. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Exposition
Internal Conflict
Independent
Character
25. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Cohesion
Tragedy
Third Person Omniscient
Plot
26. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Tragedy
Synthesize
Symbolism
Refrain
27. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Hero (tragic)
Figurative language
Plagiarism
Stanza
28. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Citation
Analyze
Direct
Suspense
29. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Subordinate
Etymology
Nuances
30. Tell how things are alike and different
Formal
Compare and Contrast
Parallel Structure
Parallel Structure
31. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Flat
Transition
Scaffolding
32. Classifying people by their traits.
Delineate
Setting
Pacing
Stereotype
33. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Third Person Omniscient
First person
Flashback
Complex
34. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Flashback
Stanza
Complex
35. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Narrative
Artistic medium
Soliloquy
Narrative
36. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Rhetoric
Refrain
Scaffolding
Hero (tragic)
37. A system of scaffolds
Evaluate
Scaffolding
Claim
Transition
38. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Flat
Soliloquy
Symbolism
Pathos
39. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Imagery
In -text citation
Cite
Mood
40. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Point of View
Flat
Rhyme
Suspense
41. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Artistic medium
Tone
Etymology
Imagery
42. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Repetition
Direct
Refrain
43. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Clause
Dialogue
Paraphrase
Act
44. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Plot
Subordinate
Information
45. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Theme
Conjunctive adverbs
Rhyme
Sensory language
46. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Rhetoric
Antagonist
Direct Quotation
Oxymoron
47. Showing little if any change
Static
Analyze
Direct
Alliteration
48. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Cite
Independent
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
49. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Pathos
Direct
Evaluate
50. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Refrain
Pathos
Artistic medium
Tragedy