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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Information
Figurative language
Draft
Narrative
2. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Flashback
Oxymoron
Static
3. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Paraphrase
Scene
Atmosphere
Citation
4. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Direct Quotation
Counterclaim
Stereotype
5. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Socratic Seminar
Artistic medium
Evaluate
Tragedy
6. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Cite
In -text citation
Direct Quotation
Aside
7. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Imagery
Informative/explanatory text
Protagonist
8. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Socratic Seminar
Refrain
Citation
Climax
9. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Textual evidence
Personification
Draft
Narrative
10. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Act
Refrain
Alliteration
Counterclaim
11. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Textual evidence
Imagery
Independent
Symbolism
12. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Point of View
Delineate
Third person
13. 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.
Mood
Non -fiction
Third Person Omniscient
Antagonist
14. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Character
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Dialogue
15. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Imagery
Act
Fiction
Formal
16. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Plot
Round
Argument
Suspense
17. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Round
Transition
Third person
18. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Conjunctive adverbs
Scaffolding
Fiction
Theme
19. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Conjunctive adverbs
Simile
Imagery
20. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Syntax
Synthesize
Pathos
Citation
21. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rising Action
Rhyme
First person
22. 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
Citation
Plagiarism
Hero (tragic)
First person
23. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Plot
Character
Pathos
24. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Onomatopoeia
Direct Quotation
Summarize
Counterclaim
25. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Phrases
Dialogue
Static
26. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Non -fiction
Alliteration
Independent
Artistic medium
27. 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.
Climax
Plagiarism
Socratic Seminar
Counterclaim
28. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Simile
Formal
Act
29. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Transition
Sensory language
Stereotype
Socratic Seminar
30. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Cross - curricular
First person
Stanza
Resolution
31. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Speaker
Static
Character
Aside
32. Make a blueprint of
Scene
Third person
Mood
Draft
33. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Symbolism
Stanza
Etymology
34. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Cohesion
Transition
Scene
Third Person Limited
35. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Artistic medium
Complex
Character
Theme
36. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Paraphrase
Mood
Direct
Act
37. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Exposition
Oxymoron
Information
38. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Climax
Etymology
Aside
39. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Flashback
Euphemism
Analyze
Draft
40. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Act
Sensory language
Protagonist
41. Character pitted against protagonist
Flat
Antagonist
Rising Action
Direct
42. Make a blueprint of
Symbolism
Third Person Limited
Inference
Draft
43. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Character
Refrain
Parallel plots
44. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Direct
Suspense
Textual evidence
Cross - curricular
45. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Delineate
Analyze
Point of View
Resolution
46. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Stereotype
Third person
Rising Action
Draft
47. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Third Person Omniscient
Protagonist
Syntax
Non -fiction
48. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Figurative language
Flat
Suspense
49. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Hero (tragic)
Static
Conjunctive adverbs
Conflict
50. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Tone
Figurative language
Soliloquy
Etymology