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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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1. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Symbolism
Narrative
Paraphrase
Suspense
2. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Figurative language
Resolution
Draft
Artistic medium
3. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Oxymoron
Exposition
Tone
Parallel plots
4. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Formal
Flat
Third person
5. Tell how things are alike and different
Suspense
Paraphrase
Compare and Contrast
Cite
6. Crediting source within the paper.
Third Person Omniscient
In -text citation
Personification
Third person
7. 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.
Rhetoric
Objective Summary
Indirect
Parallel Structure
8. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Scaffolding
Direct Quotation
Antagonist
Character
9. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Conjunctive adverbs
Alliteration
Draft
Dialogue
10. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Figurative language
Draft
Paraphrase
Cross - curricular
11. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Refrain
Delineate
Tragedy
Speaker
12. Showing little if any change
Third Person Limited
Textual evidence
Static
Speaker
13. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Connotation
Character
Suspense
14. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Exposition
Parallel plots
Fiction
Objective Summary
15. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Paraphrase
Plot
Figurative language
Claim
16. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Phrases
Rhyme
Etymology
Character
17. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Point of View
Delineate
Inference
Socratic Seminar
18. 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.
Aside
Connotation
Third person
Characterization (indirect and direct)
19. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Simile
Personification
Formal
Pathos
20. An idea that is implied or suggested
Resolution
Textual evidence
Citation
Connotation
21. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Personification
Dialogue
Delineate
Repetition
22. Give the main point or idea
Exposition
Symbolism
Summarize
Delineate
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.
Scaffolding
Complex
Aside
Falling action
24. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Summarize
Third person
Draft
Formal
25. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Tragedy
Exposition
Resolution
Imagery
26. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Argument
Informative/explanatory text
Third Person Limited
Draft
27. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Soliloquy
Parallel Structure
Objective Summary
Plagiarism
28. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Plot
Rhyme
Citation
29. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Information
Artistic medium
Refrain
Subordinate
30. 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
Hero (tragic)
Aside
Analyze
Syntax
31. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Pacing
Draft
Climax
Claim
32. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Stanza
Connotation
Motivation
Direct
33. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Socratic Seminar
Personification
Simile
Oxymoron
34. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Parallel Structure
Scene
Stereotype
Conjunctive adverbs
35. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Speaker
Round
Protagonist
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
36. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Non -fiction
Formal
Plot
Sensory language
37. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Refrain
Pathos
Symbolism
Parallel Structure
38. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Parallel Structure
Suspense
First person
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
39. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Soliloquy
Evaluate
Refrain
40. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Third Person Omniscient
Personification
First person
Mood
41. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Phrases
Scene
Theme
Claim
42. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Personification
Scene
Dialogue
Informative/explanatory text
43. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Conflict
Counterclaim
Parallel plots
44. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Plagiarism
Plot
Tragedy
45. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Cross - curricular
Draft
Synthesize
Phrases
46. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Subordinate
Symbolism
Claim
Syntax
47. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Imagery
Scaffolding
Soliloquy
Speaker
48. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Artistic medium
Exposition
Analyze
Dialogue
49. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Informative/explanatory text
Summarize
Third Person Limited
Exposition
50. An idea that is implied or suggested
Draft
Flashback
Connotation
Complex