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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. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Stereotype
Compare and Contrast
Theme
Symbolism
2. 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.
Alliteration
Flashback
Aside
Narrative
3. 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)
Etymology
Claim
Symbolism
4. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Speaker
Internal Conflict
Climax
5. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Independent
Compare and Contrast
Tragedy
Imagery
6. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Compare and Contrast
Plagiarism
Third person
Claim
7. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Symbolism
Nuances
Compare and Contrast
8. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Independent
Informative/explanatory text
Atmosphere
Static
9. Classifying people by their traits.
Suspense
Socratic Seminar
Stereotype
Direct Quotation
10. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Euphemism
Syntax
Synthesize
Indirect
11. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Artistic medium
Parallel Structure
Socratic Seminar
Rhyme
12. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Setting
Draft
Rhetoric
Rising Action
13. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Complex
Act
Analyze
Tone
14. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Setting
Counterclaim
Scaffolding
15. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Rising Action
Cite
Artistic medium
Stanza
16. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Exposition
Direct Quotation
Atmosphere
17. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Fiction
Cohesion
Third person
Personification
18. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Narrative
Transition
Citation
Formal
19. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
First person
Mood
Exposition
Informative/explanatory text
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.
Indirect
Compare and Contrast
Socratic Seminar
Aside
21. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Compare and Contrast
Protagonist
Speaker
22. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia
Complex
23. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Flat
Static
Stanza
Motivation
24. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Hero (tragic)
Cross - curricular
Inference
25. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Conjunctive adverbs
Motivation
Internal Conflict
26. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Argument
Fiction
Simile
27. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Delineate
Repetition
Pathos
Textual evidence
28. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Argument
Alliteration
Flashback
29. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
In -text citation
Claim
Pathos
Mood
30. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Direct Quotation
Evaluate
Citation
Euphemism
31. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Antagonist
Counterclaim
Alliteration
Figurative language
32. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Tragedy
Setting
Stanza
Climax
33. Examine and judge carefully.
Euphemism
Transition
Point of View
Evaluate
34. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Indirect
Onomatopoeia
Direct Quotation
Plot
35. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Exposition
Rhyme
Conflict
Etymology
36. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Personification
Point of View
Third person
Exposition
37. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Third Person Limited
Theme
Narrative
38. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
In -text citation
Textual evidence
Conjunctive adverbs
39. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Phrases
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rhetoric
40. A system of scaffolds
Oxymoron
Round
Nuances
Scaffolding
41. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Clause
Direct
First person
Direct Quotation
42. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Climax
Clause
Subordinate
Connotation
43. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Formal
Narrative
Climax
44. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Tone
Onomatopoeia
Synthesize
Conjunctive adverbs
45. Character pitted against protagonist
Imagery
Falling action
Antagonist
Stanza
46. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Soliloquy
Independent
Indirect
Subordinate
47. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Scene
Oxymoron
Counterclaim
48. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Textual evidence
Narrative
Figurative language
Information
49. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Point of View
Atmosphere
Theme
Objective Summary
50. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Symbolism
Repetition
Mood
Act