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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. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






2. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






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






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






5. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






6. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






7. Give the main point or idea






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






9. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






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






11. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






12. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






13. 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.






14. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






16. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






17. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






18. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






19. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






20. Crediting source within the paper.






21. 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.






22. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






23. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






24. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






25. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






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






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






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






29. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






30. Character pitted against protagonist






31. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






32. Make a blueprint of






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






34. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






35. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






36. 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.






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






38. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






39. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






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






41. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






42. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






43. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






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






45. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






46. 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.






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






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






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






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