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






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.






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. A system of scaffolds






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






7. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






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






9. Crediting source within the paper.






10. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






11. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






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






14. Classifying people by their traits.






15. Examine and judge carefully.






16. Describe in vivid detail






17. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






18. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






19. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






20. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






21. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






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






23. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






24. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






25. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






27. 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.






28. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






29. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






30. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






31. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






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






33. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






34. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






35. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






36. A system of scaffolds






37. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






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






39. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






40. 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.






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






42. Assert or affirm strongly






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






44. Using language effectively to please or persuade






45. The study of the sources and development of words






46. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






47. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






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






49. Using language effectively to please or persuade






50. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning