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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. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Internal Conflict
Tragedy
Mood
Flat
2. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Setting
Climax
Summarize
Refrain
3. Method of character development in which the author reveals the personality of character through their speech - thoughts - actions - appearance - or effects of others toward the character.
Direct
Plot
Indirect
Complex
4. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Argument
Conjunctive adverbs
Personification
Atmosphere
5. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Counterclaim
Resolution
Symbolism
Plot
6. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Aside
Tone
Artistic medium
Summarize
7. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Rhyme
Parallel plots
Rhetoric
Pacing
8. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Delineate
Citation
Theme
Counterclaim
9. Showing little if any change
Formal
Euphemism
Static
Informative/explanatory text
10. Describe in vivid detail
Third person
Soliloquy
Delineate
Point of View
11. 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
Symbolism
Informative/explanatory text
Symbolism
Hero (tragic)
12. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Suspense
Scaffolding
Static
Theme
13. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Hero (tragic)
Complex
Point of View
Character
14. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Tone
Citation
Fiction
Characterization (indirect and direct)
15. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Antagonist
Flat
Stanza
Draft
16. Examine and judge carefully.
Mood
Evaluate
Inference
Theme
17. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Soliloquy
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Climax
Setting
18. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Setting
Informative/explanatory text
Climax
Socratic Seminar
19. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Synthesize
Paraphrase
Summarize
Symbolism
20. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Synthesize
Artistic medium
Formal
Independent
21. 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.
Refrain
Socratic Seminar
Fiction
Inference
22. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Fiction
Oxymoron
Direct
Delineate
23. To examine carefully; study closely
Third Person Limited
Evaluate
Syntax
Analyze
24. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Claim
Motivation
Cohesion
Speaker
25. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Information
Antagonist
Aside
26. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Atmosphere
Imagery
Stanza
Onomatopoeia
27. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Stereotype
Parallel Structure
Rising Action
Repetition
28. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Figurative language
Symbolism
Direct Quotation
Direct
29. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Falling action
Paraphrase
Citation
Tragedy
30. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Synthesize
Citation
Fallacious reasoning
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
31. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Rhyme
Fiction
Draft
First person
32. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Figurative language
Etymology
Theme
Internal Conflict
33. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Compare and Contrast
Falling action
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
34. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Flat
Conflict
Counterclaim
Third Person Limited
35. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Refrain
Alliteration
Climax
Plagiarism
36. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Cross - curricular
Alliteration
Speaker
Narrative
37. Crediting source within the paper.
Independent
Argument
In -text citation
Scaffolding
38. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Nuances
Informative/explanatory text
Theme
Dialogue
39. Main character in fiction or drama
First person
Protagonist
Hero (tragic)
Connotation
40. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Third Person Limited
Rhetoric
Information
Point of View
41. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Clause
Pathos
Objective Summary
Parallel Structure
42. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Artistic medium
Textual evidence
Resolution
Symbolism
43. Classifying people by their traits.
Plagiarism
Citation
Stereotype
Point of View
44. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Setting
Climax
Third Person Limited
Stereotype
45. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Suspense
Speaker
Symbolism
46. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Conflict
Euphemism
Rising Action
Sensory language
47. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Socratic Seminar
Speaker
Stanza
48. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Independent
Mood
Cite
Syntax
49. To examine carefully; study closely
Symbolism
Soliloquy
Analyze
Antagonist
50. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Alliteration
Hero (tragic)
Evaluate