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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






2. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






3. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






4. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






5. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






6. Showing little if any change






7. The state of cohering or sticking together






8. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






9. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






10. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






11. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






12. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






13. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






14. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






15. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






16. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






17. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






18. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






19. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






20. Give the main point or idea






21. Testimony that is presented word for word.






22. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






23. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






24. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






25. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






26. Lacking stimulating characteristics






27. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






28. The state of cohering or sticking together






29. 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.






30. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






31. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






32. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






33. Character pitted against protagonist






34. To examine carefully; study closely






35. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






36. Character pitted against protagonist






37. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






38. Using language effectively to please or persuade






39. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






40. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






41. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






42. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






43. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






44. Tell how things are alike and different






45. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






46. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






47. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






48. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






49. Using language effectively to please or persuade






50. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else