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






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






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






4. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






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






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






7. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. Main character in fiction or drama






16. The state of cohering or sticking together






17. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






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






22. Using language effectively to please or persuade






23. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






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






26. Give the main point or idea






27. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






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






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






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






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






32. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






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






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






35. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






36. An idea that is implied or suggested






37. The study of the sources and development of words






38. To examine carefully; study closely






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






44. Character pitted against protagonist






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






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






47. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






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






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