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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Lacking stimulating characteristics






2. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






3. 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.






4. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






5. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






6. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






7. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






8. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






9. Showing little if any change






10. Describe in vivid detail






11. 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






12. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






13. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






14. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






15. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






16. Examine and judge carefully.






17. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






18. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






19. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






20. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






21. 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.






22. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






23. To examine carefully; study closely






24. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






25. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






26. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






27. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






28. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






29. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






30. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






31. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






32. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






33. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






34. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






35. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






36. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






37. Crediting source within the paper.






38. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






39. Main character in fiction or drama






40. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






41. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






42. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






43. Classifying people by their traits.






44. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






45. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






46. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






47. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






48. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






49. To examine carefully; study closely






50. Assert or affirm strongly