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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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Subjects
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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Classifying people by their traits.
Compare and Contrast
Figurative language
Stereotype
Cite
2. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Soliloquy
Third person
Draft
Narrative
3. Character pitted against protagonist
Personification
Cohesion
Antagonist
Third Person Limited
4. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Symbolism
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Complex
5. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Scene
Formal
Simile
Third Person Omniscient
6. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Flashback
Cross - curricular
Direct Quotation
Paraphrase
7. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Flat
Independent
Oxymoron
Symbolism
8. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Symbolism
Independent
Counterclaim
Compare and Contrast
9. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Personification
Round
Inference
Rising Action
10. 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.
Pathos
Motivation
Indirect
Scene
11. 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.
Simile
Direct Quotation
Climax
Aside
12. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Setting
Speaker
Draft
Onomatopoeia
13. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Pacing
Compare and Contrast
Stanza
14. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Flashback
Onomatopoeia
Point of View
Theme
15. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Sensory language
Transition
Oxymoron
16. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Argument
Static
Pacing
Oxymoron
17. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Sensory language
Connotation
Mood
Etymology
18. Assert or affirm strongly
Euphemism
Claim
Internal Conflict
Suspense
19. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Conjunctive adverbs
Refrain
Claim
Mood
20. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Complex
Textual evidence
Rhetoric
Rhyme
21. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Indirect
Cross - curricular
Counterclaim
Fallacious reasoning
22. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Claim
Round
Third Person Omniscient
23. The study of the sources and development of words
Inference
Informative/explanatory text
Scene
Etymology
24. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Scene
Socratic Seminar
Paraphrase
Synthesize
25. Make a blueprint of
Atmosphere
Symbolism
Complex
Draft
26. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Nuances
Round
Mood
Independent
27. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Third person
In -text citation
Act
28. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Direct Quotation
Antagonist
Citation
Pacing
29. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Point of View
In -text citation
Subordinate
Inference
30. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Narrative
Draft
First person
Stanza
31. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Nuances
Rising Action
Independent
Formal
32. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Personification
Synthesize
Rhetoric
33. A system of scaffolds
Summarize
Rising Action
Scaffolding
Cohesion
34. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Conjunctive adverbs
Tone
Imagery
Characterization (indirect and direct)
35. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Textual evidence
Parallel plots
Rhyme
Antagonist
36. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Independent
Clause
Simile
Draft
37. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Textual evidence
Draft
Phrases
Simile
38. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Round
Indirect
Repetition
Falling action
39. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Suspense
Euphemism
Round
Textual evidence
40. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Cohesion
Rhyme
Third Person Omniscient
Direct
41. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Flat
Narrative
Atmosphere
Euphemism
42. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Plot
Pacing
Aside
43. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Plagiarism
Motivation
Exposition
Paraphrase
44. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Rising Action
Setting
Flashback
45. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Symbolism
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Antagonist
46. Assert or affirm strongly
Character
Antagonist
Claim
Informative/explanatory text
47. Tell how things are alike and different
Compare and Contrast
Cross - curricular
Rhyme
Protagonist
48. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Protagonist
Direct Quotation
Theme
Complex
49. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Direct
Counterclaim
Parallel plots
Conjunctive adverbs
50. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Scaffolding
Third Person Omniscient
Pacing
Parallel Structure