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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Refrain
Informative/explanatory text
Counterclaim
Fiction
2. Crediting source within the paper.
Motivation
In -text citation
Rising Action
Draft
3. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Euphemism
Falling action
Transition
Pacing
4. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Resolution
Character
Oxymoron
Setting
5. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
In -text citation
Flashback
Protagonist
6. Give the main point or idea
Textual evidence
Summarize
Evaluate
Formal
7. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
First person
Euphemism
Third Person Omniscient
Symbolism
8. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Oxymoron
Independent
Mood
9. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Conflict
Plot
Resolution
Independent
10. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Act
Round
Third Person Limited
11. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Simile
Third Person Limited
Plagiarism
Aside
12. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Dialogue
Static
Parallel plots
13. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Cite
Dialogue
Atmosphere
Falling action
14. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Transition
Citation
Act
15. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Third person
Connotation
Figurative language
16. Classifying people by their traits.
Fiction
Connotation
Stereotype
Complex
17. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
In -text citation
Parallel plots
Phrases
Scene
18. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Stereotype
Subordinate
Sensory language
Oxymoron
19. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Informative/explanatory text
Direct
Character
20. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Argument
Scene
Repetition
Sensory language
21. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Cite
Climax
Delineate
22. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Imagery
Synthesize
Resolution
Plot
23. 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.
Plagiarism
Objective Summary
Climax
Socratic Seminar
24. A system of scaffolds
Cite
Pacing
Inference
Scaffolding
25. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Clause
Atmosphere
Motivation
26. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Rhetoric
Summarize
Pathos
Atmosphere
27. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Independent
Conjunctive adverbs
Direct Quotation
Non -fiction
28. 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.
Argument
Stanza
Aside
Repetition
29. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Tone
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Narrative
30. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Phrases
Independent
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Euphemism
31. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Conjunctive adverbs
Citation
Flat
Cohesion
32. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Evaluate
Artistic medium
Stanza
33. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Parallel plots
Inference
Atmosphere
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
34. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Repetition
Citation
Cite
Third person
35. 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
Hero (tragic)
Indirect
Rising Action
Parallel Structure
36. Describe in vivid detail
Figurative language
Exposition
Delineate
Rising Action
37. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Compare and Contrast
Cite
Fallacious reasoning
Static
38. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Socratic Seminar
Artistic medium
Direct Quotation
Complex
39. The study of the sources and development of words
Connotation
Compare and Contrast
Fiction
Etymology
40. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Internal Conflict
Counterclaim
Soliloquy
Phrases
41. The study of the sources and development of words
Internal Conflict
Imagery
Etymology
Plot
42. 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.
Character
Evaluate
Flashback
Argument
43. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Formal
Climax
44. 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.
Draft
Theme
Indirect
Setting
45. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Indirect
Scaffolding
Summarize
Objective Summary
46. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Rhetoric
Repetition
Pacing
Direct Quotation
47. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Draft
Analyze
Cohesion
Act
48. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Soliloquy
Protagonist
Round
Parallel plots
49. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Claim
Rhetoric
Stanza
Scaffolding
50. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Third person
Third Person Limited
Euphemism
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