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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






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






3. Describe in vivid detail






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






5. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






6. Showing little if any change






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






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






9. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






11. 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.






12. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






13. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






14. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






15. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






16. 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.






17. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






18. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






19. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






21. Classifying people by their traits.






22. The study of the sources and development of words






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






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






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






26. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






27. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






28. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






29. A system of scaffolds






30. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






31. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






32. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






33. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






34. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






35. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






36. Give the main point or idea






37. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






39. Describe in vivid detail






40. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






41. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






42. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






43. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






44. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






45. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






46. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






47. 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.






48. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






49. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






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