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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. A system of scaffolds






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






3. Character pitted against protagonist






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






5. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






6. Classifying people by their traits.






7. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






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






9. Give the main point or idea






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






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






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






13. To examine carefully; study closely






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






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






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






17. The study of the sources and development of words






18. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






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






20. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






21. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






22. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






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






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






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






26. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






27. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






28. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






29. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






30. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






31. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






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






33. Classifying people by their traits.






34. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






35. Tell how things are alike and different






36. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






37. Make a blueprint of






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






39. Crediting source within the paper.






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






41. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






42. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






43. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






44. The study of the sources and development of words






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






46. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






47. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






49. Testimony that is presented word for word.






50. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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