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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. A system of scaffolds
Setting
Scaffolding
Parallel plots
Compare and Contrast
2. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Fallacious reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Figurative language
Third Person Limited
3. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Transition
Euphemism
Conjunctive adverbs
4. 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
Aside
Complex
Pathos
5. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Complex
Internal Conflict
Plagiarism
Symbolism
6. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Act
Alliteration
Scene
7. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Protagonist
Act
Resolution
8. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Setting
Plot
Transition
Flat
9. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Mood
Compare and Contrast
Draft
10. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Textual evidence
Non -fiction
Aside
Informative/explanatory text
11. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
In -text citation
Pacing
Compare and Contrast
Narrative
12. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Climax
Clause
Personification
Rhetoric
13. To examine carefully; study closely
Objective Summary
Cross - curricular
Third Person Limited
Analyze
14. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Flashback
Parallel plots
Etymology
Third Person Omniscient
15. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Setting
Third Person Omniscient
Tragedy
Rhyme
16. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Third Person Omniscient
Conjunctive adverbs
Character
Stanza
17. The study of the sources and development of words
Euphemism
Syntax
Aside
Etymology
18. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Phrases
Symbolism
Repetition
Dialogue
19. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
First person
First person
Clause
Direct
20. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Fallacious reasoning
Third person
Aside
21. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Argument
Phrases
Antagonist
22. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Mood
Tone
Paraphrase
23. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Artistic medium
Falling action
Subordinate
Artistic medium
24. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Third Person Limited
Euphemism
Synthesize
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
25. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Plot
Sensory language
Setting
Paraphrase
26. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Indirect
Syntax
Delineate
Fallacious reasoning
27. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Counterclaim
Information
Indirect
28. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Third person
Objective Summary
Inference
Formal
29. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Synthesize
Information
Subordinate
Syntax
30. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Static
Euphemism
Informative/explanatory text
Flat
31. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Parallel plots
Rising Action
Symbolism
Figurative language
32. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
First person
Motivation
Simile
Tone
33. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Theme
Argument
Information
34. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Tragedy
Speaker
Summarize
35. Tell how things are alike and different
Pathos
Imagery
Compare and Contrast
Refrain
36. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Formal
Pacing
Counterclaim
Oxymoron
37. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Protagonist
Transition
Static
38. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Mood
Conjunctive adverbs
Claim
39. Crediting source within the paper.
Counterclaim
Cross - curricular
Sensory language
In -text citation
40. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
First person
Point of View
Oxymoron
Synthesize
41. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Stanza
Symbolism
Round
42. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Hero (tragic)
Information
Phrases
Non -fiction
43. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Soliloquy
Conjunctive adverbs
Socratic Seminar
44. The study of the sources and development of words
Resolution
Theme
Rhetoric
Etymology
45. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Tone
Clause
Third Person Omniscient
Transition
46. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Textual evidence
Rhyme
Non -fiction
47. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Falling action
Setting
First person
Information
48. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Non -fiction
Speaker
Parallel plots
Stanza
49. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Connotation
Stereotype
Nuances
50. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Cross - curricular
Aside
Euphemism
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