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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. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Character
Direct
Parallel plots
Hero (tragic)
2. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Repetition
Non -fiction
Character
Cite
3. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Falling action
Static
Evaluate
Sensory language
4. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Theme
Paraphrase
Resolution
Fiction
5. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Socratic Seminar
Pathos
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Stanza
6. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Direct
Conjunctive adverbs
Repetition
Non -fiction
7. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Third Person Omniscient
Clause
Information
Transition
8. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Dialogue
Fiction
Indirect
Transition
9. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Euphemism
Oxymoron
Resolution
Paraphrase
10. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Simile
Transition
Act
Conflict
11. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Argument
Argument
Draft
Symbolism
12. 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.
Internal Conflict
Act
Counterclaim
Tone
13. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Protagonist
Euphemism
Dialogue
Objective Summary
14. Main character in fiction or drama
Point of View
Protagonist
Syntax
Inference
15. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Soliloquy
Connotation
Hero (tragic)
Round
16. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Delineate
Atmosphere
Mood
Clause
17. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Counterclaim
Speaker
Exposition
Figurative language
18. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
First person
Protagonist
Third Person Limited
Refrain
19. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Repetition
Scene
Stanza
Cross - curricular
20. Make a blueprint of
Paraphrase
Artistic medium
Information
Draft
21. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Citation
Climax
In -text citation
Plagiarism
22. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Sensory language
Motivation
Round
Subordinate
23. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Paraphrase
Personification
Setting
Draft
24. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Evaluate
Direct
Citation
25. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Etymology
Third Person Limited
Exposition
26. 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.
Complex
Third Person Omniscient
Alliteration
Aside
27. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Draft
Imagery
First person
28. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Syntax
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Parallel Structure
Rising Action
29. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Third Person Omniscient
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Plagiarism
Symbolism
30. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Flashback
Informative/explanatory text
Repetition
Nuances
31. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Dialogue
Subordinate
Soliloquy
First person
32. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Conjunctive adverbs
Synthesize
Refrain
33. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Scene
Flat
Suspense
Cross - curricular
34. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Hero (tragic)
Motivation
Direct Quotation
Imagery
35. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Non -fiction
Cross - curricular
In -text citation
Tone
36. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Stereotype
Cite
Point of View
Personification
37. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Static
Plot
Information
38. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Inference
Alliteration
Sensory language
39. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Motivation
Direct
Hero (tragic)
Round
40. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Sensory language
Third Person Omniscient
Flat
Repetition
41. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Complex
Nuances
Round
Plot
42. The study of the sources and development of words
Formal
Figurative language
Etymology
Nuances
43. 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.
Conjunctive adverbs
Objective Summary
Hero (tragic)
Flashback
44. 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.
Hero (tragic)
Rhetoric
Aside
Third Person Omniscient
45. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Artistic medium
Inference
Information
Personification
46. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Socratic Seminar
Rhyme
Static
Cross - curricular
47. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Simile
Plagiarism
Act
Sensory language
48. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhyme
Rhetoric
Complex
Argument
49. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Formal
Fiction
Syntax
Rising Action
50. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Personification
Exposition
Falling action
Syntax