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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. 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






2. Character pitted against protagonist






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






4. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






5. Main character in fiction or drama






6. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






7. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






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






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






10. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






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






12. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






13. The study of the sources and development of words






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






15. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






16. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






17. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






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






19. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






20. 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.






21. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






22. 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.






23. The state of cohering or sticking together






24. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






25. 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.






26. Crediting source within the paper.






27. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






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






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






30. Scene in a movie - play - short story - novel - or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.






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






32. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






34. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






35. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






36. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






38. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






39. The state of cohering or sticking together






40. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






41. Showing little if any change






42. Examine and judge carefully.






43. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






44. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






45. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






46. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






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






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






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






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






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