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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. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






2. Examine and judge carefully.






3. 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.






4. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






7. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






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






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






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






11. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






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






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






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






15. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






17. A system of scaffolds






18. 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.






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






20. Main character in fiction or drama






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






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






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






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






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






26. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






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






30. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






31. Testimony that is presented word for word.






32. To examine carefully; study closely






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






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






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






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






37. Make a blueprint of






38. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






40. Showing little if any change






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






42. Crediting source within the paper.






43. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






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