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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. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Socratic Seminar
Non -fiction
Argument
Information
2. 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.
Summarize
Draft
Socratic Seminar
Atmosphere
3. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Rising Action
Indirect
Formal
Textual evidence
4. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Cite
Act
Dialogue
5. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Rhetoric
First person
Nuances
Exposition
6. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Conflict
Textual evidence
Refrain
Tone
7. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Analyze
Scaffolding
Act
8. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Scene
Direct Quotation
Antagonist
9. 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.
Cross - curricular
Inference
Aside
Rhetoric
10. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Tone
Sensory language
Cross - curricular
Antagonist
11. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Act
Conflict
Motivation
Inference
12. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Symbolism
Refrain
Draft
Non -fiction
13. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Information
Oxymoron
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Personification
14. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Synthesize
Paraphrase
Euphemism
15. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Pathos
Plot
Oxymoron
Third Person Omniscient
16. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Third Person Omniscient
Conjunctive adverbs
Nuances
Soliloquy
17. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Rising Action
Setting
Paraphrase
18. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Internal Conflict
Citation
Imagery
Fiction
19. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Point of View
Cite
Tragedy
Subordinate
20. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Third Person Limited
Setting
Subordinate
Argument
21. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Motivation
Third Person Limited
Clause
Plot
22. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Speaker
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Argument
Counterclaim
23. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Soliloquy
Imagery
Symbolism
Formal
24. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Inference
Cross - curricular
Cite
25. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Mood
Nuances
First person
Oxymoron
26. Tell how things are alike and different
Narrative
Indirect
Fiction
Compare and Contrast
27. Character pitted against protagonist
Atmosphere
Antagonist
Third Person Limited
Objective Summary
28. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Static
Direct Quotation
In -text citation
29. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Cross - curricular
Stereotype
Draft
Setting
30. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Conjunctive adverbs
Narrative
Information
Syntax
31. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Rhyme
Exposition
Information
Point of View
32. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
First person
In -text citation
Etymology
Direct
33. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Rhyme
Draft
Synthesize
Pacing
34. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Alliteration
Scaffolding
Synthesize
Simile
35. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Cite
Symbolism
Scaffolding
36. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Figurative language
Artistic medium
Dialogue
Rising Action
37. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Draft
Parallel plots
Stanza
Textual evidence
38. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Third Person Limited
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Fiction
39. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Objective Summary
Imagery
Independent
Pathos
40. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Socratic Seminar
Round
Flat
41. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Cite
Flashback
Theme
Euphemism
42. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Act
Independent
Parallel plots
Speaker
43. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Information
Internal Conflict
Plagiarism
Tone
44. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Hero (tragic)
Motivation
Falling action
Symbolism
45. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Static
Third person
Personification
Hero (tragic)
46. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Theme
First person
Internal Conflict
Rhyme
47. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Conjunctive adverbs
Formal
Alliteration
Delineate
48. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Theme
Draft
Formal
Counterclaim
49. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Figurative language
Imagery
Pacing
Refrain
50. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Stereotype
Citation
Formal