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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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1. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Point of View
Indirect
Theme
2. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Antagonist
Parallel plots
Independent
Subordinate
3. Showing little if any change
Simile
Etymology
Static
Argument
4. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Euphemism
Non -fiction
Symbolism
Round
5. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Draft
Refrain
Alliteration
Argument
6. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Resolution
Suspense
Claim
7. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Scene
Imagery
Characterization (indirect and direct)
First person
8. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Tone
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Cross - curricular
Tone
9. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Counterclaim
Third person
Euphemism
Round
10. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Citation
Narrative
Act
Aside
11. 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.
Artistic medium
Independent
Sensory language
Socratic Seminar
12. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Claim
Aside
Scene
13. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Plagiarism
Mood
Personification
Euphemism
14. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Phrases
Textual evidence
Third Person Omniscient
15. Tell how things are alike and different
Refrain
Compare and Contrast
Alliteration
Cite
16. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Narrative
Pathos
Rhyme
17. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Compare and Contrast
Information
Clause
Character
18. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
Imagery
Fallacious reasoning
Figurative language
19. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Flat
Indirect
Draft
Hero (tragic)
20. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Repetition
Sensory language
Textual evidence
Synthesize
21. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Independent
Complex
Clause
Rising Action
22. The narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening.
Fallacious reasoning
Third Person Omniscient
Informative/explanatory text
Static
23. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Argument
Third person
Repetition
24. Examine and judge carefully.
Independent
Synthesize
Alliteration
Evaluate
25. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Stereotype
Onomatopoeia
Act
Symbolism
26. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Cite
Scene
Formal
27. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Claim
Informative/explanatory text
Point of View
Speaker
28. Showing little if any change
Fiction
Static
First person
Oxymoron
29. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Artistic medium
Mood
Motivation
Atmosphere
30. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Plagiarism
Plot
Syntax
31. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Suspense
Summarize
Figurative language
32. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Argument
Non -fiction
Subordinate
Internal Conflict
33. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Aside
Narrative
Independent
Sensory language
34. Main character in fiction or drama
Syntax
Protagonist
Parallel Structure
Plot
35. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Rhetoric
Cite
Parallel Structure
Oxymoron
36. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Pathos
Repetition
Cohesion
37. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Scene
Summarize
Repetition
Paraphrase
38. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Fallacious reasoning
Tragedy
Oxymoron
Flat
39. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Connotation
Internal Conflict
Inference
Formal
40. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Third Person Omniscient
Rhetoric
Tone
Summarize
41. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Third Person Omniscient
Falling action
Textual evidence
Alliteration
42. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Flat
Non -fiction
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
First person
43. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Analyze
Scaffolding
Onomatopoeia
Pacing
44. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Direct
Flat
Conjunctive adverbs
Hero (tragic)
45. Classifying people by their traits.
Speaker
Rhyme
Stereotype
Protagonist
46. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Stanza
Tragedy
Counterclaim
Sensory language
47. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Fallacious reasoning
Setting
Personification
Phrases
48. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Subordinate
Fiction
Soliloquy
49. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Textual evidence
Exposition
Draft
50. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Third person
Symbolism
Motivation