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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. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Motivation
Informative/explanatory text
Formal
Characterization (indirect and direct)
2. Examine and judge carefully.
Simile
Pacing
Third Person Omniscient
Evaluate
3. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Non -fiction
Delineate
First person
4. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Simile
Transition
Antagonist
Repetition
5. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Direct Quotation
Mood
Setting
Artistic medium
6. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Tragedy
Counterclaim
Oxymoron
7. 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
Personification
Information
Sensory language
8. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Exposition
Setting
Cross - curricular
Subordinate
9. Scene in a movie - play - short story - novel - or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Flashback
Paraphrase
Simile
10. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
First person
Repetition
Cross - curricular
Tone
11. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Connotation
Cohesion
Scaffolding
Rising Action
12. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Third Person Omniscient
Rhyme
Third Person Limited
Characterization (indirect and direct)
13. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Artistic medium
Onomatopoeia
Setting
Scaffolding
14. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Repetition
Evaluate
Narrative
Parallel Structure
15. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Rhyme
Direct
Pathos
16. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Rising Action
Refrain
Parallel plots
Setting
17. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
First person
Hero (tragic)
Atmosphere
Exposition
18. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Resolution
Scaffolding
Rising Action
Dialogue
19. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Act
Draft
Cross - curricular
Narrative
20. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Synthesize
Resolution
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Stereotype
21. To examine carefully; study closely
Textual evidence
Citation
Analyze
Transition
22. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Direct Quotation
Nuances
Citation
Motivation
23. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Theme
Inference
Delineate
Claim
24. Classifying people by their traits.
Information
Stereotype
Onomatopoeia
Dialogue
25. Character pitted against protagonist
Synthesize
Antagonist
Third Person Omniscient
Point of View
26. An idea that is implied or suggested
Evaluate
Draft
Connotation
Parallel plots
27. To examine carefully; study closely
Round
Setting
Artistic medium
Analyze
28. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Round
Rising Action
Character
29. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Formal
Flat
Oxymoron
Fiction
30. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Information
Indirect
Nuances
Formal
31. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Symbolism
Argument
Speaker
Simile
32. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Evaluate
Parallel Structure
Inference
Personification
33. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Mood
Third Person Limited
Narrative
34. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Rising Action
Syntax
Tragedy
Objective Summary
35. 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.
In -text citation
Draft
Etymology
Indirect
36. 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.
Inference
Third Person Omniscient
Informative/explanatory text
Characterization (indirect and direct)
37. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Draft
Speaker
Pathos
38. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Clause
Etymology
Fallacious reasoning
Atmosphere
39. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Narrative
Simile
Climax
Artistic medium
40. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Personification
Round
Climax
Complex
41. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
In -text citation
Parallel Structure
Characterization (indirect and direct)
42. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Tragedy
Antagonist
Paraphrase
43. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Third person
Draft
Scene
Conflict
44. 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.
Point of View
Aside
Symbolism
Counterclaim
45. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Onomatopoeia
Stereotype
Fiction
Clause
46. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Theme
Cite
Fiction
Non -fiction
47. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Textual evidence
Exposition
Cohesion
48. Scene in a movie - play - short story - novel - or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
Citation
Flashback
Fiction
Atmosphere
49. Showing little if any change
Etymology
Static
Cross - curricular
Subordinate
50. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Socratic Seminar
Mood
Suspense