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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. A system of scaffolds
Synthesize
Subordinate
Transition
Scaffolding
2. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Complex
Inference
Refrain
Non -fiction
3. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Fiction
Direct
Climax
Alliteration
4. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Argument
Figurative language
Paraphrase
Point of View
5. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Simile
Summarize
Oxymoron
6. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Onomatopoeia
Analyze
Oxymoron
Character
7. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Pathos
Independent
Pathos
Scene
8. 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)
Syntax
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Scene
9. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Exposition
Summarize
Conjunctive adverbs
Mood
10. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Syntax
Tone
Internal Conflict
Characterization (indirect and direct)
11. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Transition
Tone
Exposition
Direct
12. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Cohesion
Aside
Direct Quotation
13. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Figurative language
Direct Quotation
Evaluate
Flat
14. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Indirect
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Motivation
15. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Onomatopoeia
Fiction
Symbolism
Dialogue
16. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Conjunctive adverbs
Imagery
Clause
Rising Action
17. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Atmosphere
Motivation
Stereotype
Fallacious reasoning
18. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Dialogue
Tone
Direct
Symbolism
19. Assert or affirm strongly
Rising Action
Scene
Refrain
Claim
20. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Socratic Seminar
Flashback
Personification
21. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Third Person Omniscient
Character
Cross - curricular
Conjunctive adverbs
22. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Evaluate
Symbolism
Setting
Atmosphere
23. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Speaker
Objective Summary
Cross - curricular
Rhyme
24. Character pitted against protagonist
Euphemism
Rising Action
Narrative
Antagonist
25. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Rhyme
Clause
Textual evidence
Plot
26. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Falling action
Theme
Flashback
27. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Refrain
Act
Round
28. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Plot
Evaluate
Cross - curricular
29. The state of cohering or sticking together
Antagonist
Cohesion
Onomatopoeia
Socratic Seminar
30. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Simile
Symbolism
First person
Information
31. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Theme
Soliloquy
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Fallacious reasoning
32. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Compare and Contrast
Third Person Limited
Stanza
33. The state of cohering or sticking together
Symbolism
Summarize
Cohesion
Conflict
34. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Conflict
Plot
Parallel Structure
Flashback
35. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Scaffolding
Draft
Conflict
Theme
36. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Alliteration
Plot
Theme
Cross - curricular
37. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Climax
Hero (tragic)
Plagiarism
Exposition
38. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Non -fiction
Mood
Symbolism
Rising Action
39. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Plot
Evaluate
Nuances
Oxymoron
40. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Aside
Stereotype
Resolution
41. Give the main point or idea
Atmosphere
Climax
Protagonist
Summarize
42. The study of the sources and development of words
Static
Etymology
Aside
Complex
43. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Figurative language
Rising Action
Symbolism
44. Describe in vivid detail
Climax
Conflict
Delineate
Third Person Omniscient
45. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Fallacious reasoning
Speaker
Complex
Internal Conflict
46. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Flat
Textual evidence
Indirect
47. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Flat
Sensory language
Imagery
Rhetoric
48. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Stereotype
Setting
Socratic Seminar
Informative/explanatory text
49. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Draft
Aside
Non -fiction
Figurative language
50. Character pitted against protagonist
Indirect
Paraphrase
Antagonist
Subordinate