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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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common-core
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Crediting source within the paper.
Informative/explanatory text
In -text citation
Complex
Narrative
2. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Syntax
Informative/explanatory text
Plagiarism
3. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Indirect
Flat
Third person
Pacing
4. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Evaluate
Internal Conflict
Symbolism
5. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Flashback
Non -fiction
Conjunctive adverbs
Protagonist
6. 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.
Indirect
Draft
In -text citation
Third Person Omniscient
7. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Cross - curricular
Cite
Plagiarism
Simile
8. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Clause
Simile
Scene
Character
9. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Speaker
Fallacious reasoning
Parallel Structure
Plagiarism
10. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Citation
Personification
Rhyme
Narrative
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.
Fallacious reasoning
Third Person Omniscient
Socratic Seminar
Atmosphere
12. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Subordinate
Symbolism
Synthesize
Paraphrase
13. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Character
Simile
Direct
Third person
14. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Refrain
Sensory language
Point of View
Imagery
15. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Counterclaim
Euphemism
Internal Conflict
In -text citation
16. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Suspense
First person
Analyze
17. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Oxymoron
Cross - curricular
Plagiarism
Indirect
18. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Parallel Structure
Theme
Third Person Omniscient
Draft
19. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Suspense
Narrative
Independent
20. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
First person
Resolution
Independent
Scene
21. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Phrases
Textual evidence
Stanza
22. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Nuances
Socratic Seminar
Parallel plots
Cite
23. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Static
Motivation
Conjunctive adverbs
Etymology
24. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Repetition
Plot
Figurative language
Atmosphere
25. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Fiction
Rhyme
Plot
26. Assert or affirm strongly
Aside
Claim
Antagonist
Compare and Contrast
27. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Falling action
Personification
Character
Subordinate
28. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Cross - curricular
Non -fiction
Imagery
Argument
29. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Phrases
Conflict
Complex
30. The study of the sources and development of words
Stanza
Oxymoron
Conflict
Etymology
31. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Setting
Sensory language
Synthesize
Third Person Omniscient
32. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
First person
Transition
Hero (tragic)
Cite
33. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Repetition
Resolution
Scaffolding
34. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Plot
Suspense
Personification
35. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Antagonist
Scene
Transition
Falling action
36. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Stereotype
Internal Conflict
Third person
37. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Conflict
Stanza
Soliloquy
38. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Scaffolding
Setting
Summarize
39. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Argument
Counterclaim
Protagonist
40. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Pathos
Rhyme
Symbolism
Motivation
41. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Draft
Cohesion
Act
Third Person Omniscient
42. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Resolution
Static
Climax
43. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Third Person Omniscient
Cite
Flat
Transition
44. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Atmosphere
Falling action
Flat
Round
45. Classifying people by their traits.
Conjunctive adverbs
Stereotype
Oxymoron
Act
46. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Direct
Internal Conflict
Symbolism
47. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Direct Quotation
Round
Simile
48. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Parallel Structure
Pathos
Objective Summary
Setting
49. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Hero (tragic)
Antagonist
Formal
Onomatopoeia
50. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Refrain
Rhetoric
Independent
First person