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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An idea that is implied or suggested






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.






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






4. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






5. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






9. Describe in vivid detail






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






11. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






12. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






13. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






16. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






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






19. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






21. An idea that is implied or suggested






22. Make a blueprint of






23. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






24. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






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






26. Showing little if any change






27. 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






28. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






29. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






30. 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.






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






32. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






33. 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.






34. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






35. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






36. The study of the sources and development of words






37. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






38. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






39. Make a blueprint of






40. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






41. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






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






43. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






44. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






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






46. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






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






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






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






50. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.