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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Crediting source within the paper.






2. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






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






4. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






5. Method of character development in which the author reveals the personality of character through their speech - thoughts - actions - appearance - or effects of others toward the character.






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






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






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






9. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






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






12. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






13. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






14. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






16. 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.






17. Lacking stimulating characteristics






18. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






21. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






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






23. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






24. Main character in fiction or drama






25. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






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






28. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






30. Using language effectively to please or persuade






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






32. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






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






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






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






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






37. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






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






40. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






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






42. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






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






45. 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.






46. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






49. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






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






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