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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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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Argument
Speaker
Alliteration
2. 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.
Internal Conflict
Information
Indirect
Socratic Seminar
3. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Internal Conflict
Character
Cross - curricular
Falling action
4. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Inference
Pacing
Connotation
Phrases
5. Make a blueprint of
Onomatopoeia
Draft
Figurative language
Rhetoric
6. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Fallacious reasoning
Third Person Omniscient
Climax
Narrative
7. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Objective Summary
Argument
Resolution
Simile
8. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Suspense
Stanza
Compare and Contrast
9. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Point of View
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Non -fiction
Inference
10. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Dialogue
Figurative language
Theme
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
11. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Compare and Contrast
Fallacious reasoning
Draft
12. Showing little if any change
Scaffolding
Parallel Structure
Hero (tragic)
Static
13. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Non -fiction
Phrases
Plot
Cite
14. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Information
Conjunctive adverbs
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
In -text citation
15. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Atmosphere
Etymology
Fallacious reasoning
Complex
16. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Scaffolding
Theme
Tragedy
Character
17. 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.
Symbolism
Draft
Sensory language
Indirect
18. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Euphemism
First person
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Analyze
19. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Scene
Oxymoron
Speaker
Motivation
20. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
First person
Pathos
Claim
Non -fiction
21. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Syntax
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Textual evidence
22. 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)
Scene
Scaffolding
Formal
23. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Euphemism
Hero (tragic)
Dialogue
Independent
24. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Pathos
Resolution
Paraphrase
Figurative language
25. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Motivation
Scene
Analyze
Round
26. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Conflict
Act
Parallel Structure
27. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Draft
Parallel plots
Evaluate
Direct Quotation
28. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Counterclaim
Analyze
Internal Conflict
Onomatopoeia
29. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Fallacious reasoning
Pacing
Point of View
Tragedy
30. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Hero (tragic)
Round
Indirect
Rhetoric
31. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Citation
Rising Action
Cross - curricular
Exposition
32. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Phrases
Connotation
First person
33. Crediting source within the paper.
Phrases
Paraphrase
Climax
In -text citation
34. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Analyze
Syntax
Falling action
Cohesion
35. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Point of View
Mood
Speaker
Falling action
36. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Claim
Cross - curricular
Dialogue
Analyze
37. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Stanza
Scene
Soliloquy
Citation
38. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Cohesion
Repetition
Etymology
Textual evidence
39. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Syntax
Cross - curricular
Sensory language
40. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Draft
Rising Action
Fiction
Narrative
41. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Nuances
Paraphrase
Point of View
Fallacious reasoning
42. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Compare and Contrast
Rising Action
Inference
Personification
43. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Etymology
Rhetoric
Figurative language
Synthesize
44. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Pacing
Onomatopoeia
Speaker
Claim
45. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Hero (tragic)
Imagery
Characterization (indirect and direct)
46. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Rising Action
Citation
Figurative language
47. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Act
Non -fiction
Character
Informative/explanatory text
48. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Draft
Euphemism
Citation
Resolution
49. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Clause
Cite
Narrative
Etymology
50. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Indirect
Phrases
Etymology
Argument