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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Character
Scene
Simile
Non -fiction
2. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Independent
Formal
Act
3. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Etymology
Refrain
First person
4. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Plagiarism
Atmosphere
Synthesize
5. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Syntax
Narrative
Sensory language
Plot
6. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Narrative
Tone
Delineate
Draft
7. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Draft
Theme
Phrases
Draft
8. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Rising Action
Dialogue
9. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Falling action
Onomatopoeia
Plot
Synthesize
10. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Point of View
Personification
Pathos
11. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Antagonist
Paraphrase
Cross - curricular
Onomatopoeia
12. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Climax
Tone
13. Examine and judge carefully.
Suspense
Transition
Pacing
Evaluate
14. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Oxymoron
Objective Summary
Draft
Flat
15. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Claim
Fallacious reasoning
Protagonist
Sensory language
16. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Cohesion
Dialogue
Symbolism
Theme
17. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Act
Parallel plots
Pacing
Hero (tragic)
18. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Figurative language
Informative/explanatory text
Flashback
Tone
19. A hero or heroine is the principle character in a movie - novel - or play - especially one who plays a vital role in plot development and solves the conflict. (A tragic hero is usually a dignified - courageous - and high - ranking character whose eve
Hero (tragic)
Falling action
Cross - curricular
Non -fiction
20. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Summarize
Direct Quotation
Independent
Syntax
21. Showing little if any change
Static
Act
Paraphrase
Draft
22. Character pitted against protagonist
Rhyme
Informative/explanatory text
Connotation
Antagonist
23. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Soliloquy
Act
Exposition
Oxymoron
24. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Parallel Structure
Aside
Theme
Refrain
25. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Tragedy
Tragedy
Formal
Point of View
26. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Fallacious reasoning
Syntax
Etymology
Point of View
27. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Tone
Pathos
Inference
28. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Pathos
Atmosphere
Cross - curricular
Symbolism
29. 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.
Indirect
Rising Action
Falling action
Synthesize
30. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Analyze
Inference
Oxymoron
Scene
31. Give the main point or idea
Paraphrase
Motivation
Summarize
Argument
32. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Third person
Phrases
Falling action
Dialogue
33. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Claim
Protagonist
Setting
Euphemism
34. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Hero (tragic)
Motivation
Rhyme
Flashback
35. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Figurative language
Direct Quotation
Formal
Subordinate
36. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Internal Conflict
Socratic Seminar
Imagery
Nuances
37. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Rhetoric
Round
Point of View
Soliloquy
38. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Static
Simile
Summarize
Round
39. 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.
Non -fiction
Setting
Third Person Omniscient
Hero (tragic)
40. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Cite
Imagery
Point of View
Figurative language
41. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Aside
Oxymoron
Formal
42. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
In -text citation
Draft
Clause
Imagery
43. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Pacing
Subordinate
Flat
44. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Claim
Euphemism
Point of View
Mood
45. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Setting
Simile
Onomatopoeia
46. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Atmosphere
Synthesize
Rhyme
Symbolism
47. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Resolution
Non -fiction
Formal
Direct
48. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Theme
Mood
Cross - curricular
Climax
49. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Cohesion
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Motivation
50. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Simile
Subordinate
Speaker
Conclusion / Concluding Statements