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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. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Simile
Personification
Subordinate
Transition
2. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Textual evidence
Rhyme
In -text citation
Rhetoric
3. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Tone
Tragedy
Scene
Simile
4. The study of the sources and development of words
Pacing
Stereotype
Subordinate
Etymology
5. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Theme
Nuances
Pathos
Etymology
6. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Paraphrase
Tone
Repetition
Informative/explanatory text
7. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Direct
Cohesion
Exposition
8. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Soliloquy
Resolution
Transition
Complex
9. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Alliteration
Mood
Cohesion
Evaluate
10. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Summarize
Point of View
Suspense
Oxymoron
11. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Information
Plot
Setting
Fallacious reasoning
12. Assert or affirm strongly
Non -fiction
Claim
Tone
First person
13. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Hero (tragic)
Plot
Conjunctive adverbs
Fallacious reasoning
14. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Plot
Symbolism
Simile
Round
15. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Act
Argument
Theme
Speaker
16. Character pitted against protagonist
Connotation
Fiction
Plot
Antagonist
17. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Independent
Tragedy
Draft
18. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Alliteration
Point of View
Independent
Compare and Contrast
19. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Artistic medium
Informative/explanatory text
Phrases
20. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Synthesize
Point of View
Cite
21. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Complex
Pacing
Stanza
Textual evidence
22. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Resolution
Analyze
Non -fiction
23. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Point of View
Speaker
Plagiarism
Syntax
24. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Oxymoron
Stanza
Symbolism
25. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Direct
Symbolism
Theme
Scene
26. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Delineate
Simile
Non -fiction
Third Person Limited
27. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Syntax
Speaker
Atmosphere
28. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Scaffolding
Phrases
Conjunctive adverbs
29. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Conjunctive adverbs
Information
Fallacious reasoning
Dialogue
30. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Suspense
Setting
Evaluate
31. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Refrain
Parallel Structure
Imagery
In -text citation
32. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Cite
Pathos
Plot
33. Crediting source within the paper.
Evaluate
In -text citation
First person
Character
34. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Character
Syntax
Etymology
Direct
35. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Internal Conflict
Simile
Transition
36. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Setting
Act
Alliteration
Rising Action
37. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Delineate
Tone
Static
38. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.
Third Person Limited
Socratic Seminar
Suspense
Internal Conflict
39. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Repetition
Direct
Clause
Stanza
40. 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.
Indirect
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Third Person Limited
Aside
41. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Simile
Flat
Direct Quotation
42. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Parallel Structure
Atmosphere
Connotation
Repetition
43. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Artistic medium
Pacing
Parallel Structure
Refrain
44. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Exposition
Parallel Structure
Point of View
Antagonist
45. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Synthesize
Climax
Third Person Omniscient
46. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Compare and Contrast
Rising Action
Counterclaim
Paraphrase
47. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Hero (tragic)
Citation
Point of View
Plot
48. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Evaluate
Artistic medium
Draft
Alliteration
49. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Inference
Claim
Point of View
Scaffolding
50. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Information
Etymology
Stereotype
Formal