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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Cross - curricular
Character
Complex
Mood
2. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Socratic Seminar
Claim
Act
3. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Plot
Cross - curricular
Euphemism
4. A system of scaffolds
Figurative language
Plot
Scaffolding
Third Person Omniscient
5. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Objective Summary
Climax
Indirect
6. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Sensory language
Theme
Static
Paraphrase
7. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Falling action
Citation
Formal
Cross - curricular
8. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Alliteration
Nuances
Rhetoric
Character
9. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Rhetoric
Exposition
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Connotation
10. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Antagonist
Evaluate
Artistic medium
Information
11. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Claim
Textual evidence
Cross - curricular
Paraphrase
12. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Complex
Climax
Round
Resolution
13. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Onomatopoeia
Textual evidence
Suspense
Non -fiction
14. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Resolution
Syntax
Phrases
Cite
15. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Third Person Omniscient
Direct
Draft
Analyze
16. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Compare and Contrast
Fiction
Direct
Parallel Structure
17. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Sensory language
Pacing
Third Person Omniscient
Figurative language
18. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Figurative language
Stanza
Scene
Climax
19. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Rising Action
Speaker
Suspense
Analyze
20. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Information
Figurative language
Draft
Argument
21. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Plagiarism
Motivation
Oxymoron
Parallel plots
22. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Rhetoric
Refrain
Resolution
Setting
23. Showing little if any change
Imagery
Parallel Structure
Static
Counterclaim
24. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Figurative language
Third person
Stanza
Complex
25. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Point of View
Complex
Clause
26. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Round
Pacing
Refrain
Alliteration
27. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Personification
Draft
Subordinate
28. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Tone
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Rising Action
First person
29. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Objective Summary
Symbolism
Speaker
Inference
30. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Resolution
Rhyme
Tone
Characterization (indirect and direct)
31. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Motivation
Citation
Figurative language
Non -fiction
32. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Information
Tragedy
Parallel plots
Cohesion
33. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Flat
First person
Euphemism
34. 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)
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Cohesion
Theme
35. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Nuances
Repetition
Inference
36. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Flashback
Resolution
Suspense
Pathos
37. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
In -text citation
Complex
Antagonist
Imagery
38. Make a blueprint of
Repetition
Pathos
Draft
Act
39. Examine and judge carefully.
Complex
Evaluate
Tone
Formal
40. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Motivation
Analyze
Etymology
Conjunctive adverbs
41. 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.
Rising Action
Aside
Resolution
Textual evidence
42. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Fallacious reasoning
Plagiarism
Climax
Internal Conflict
43. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Nuances
Analyze
Speaker
Tragedy
44. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Socratic Seminar
Exposition
Climax
Direct
45. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Argument
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Resolution
46. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Complex
Direct Quotation
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Direct
47. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Narrative
Character
Motivation
Third Person Omniscient
48. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Fallacious reasoning
Stanza
Counterclaim
Rising Action
49. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Oxymoron
Mood
Nuances
Socratic Seminar
50. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Non -fiction
Narrative
Scene
Act