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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






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






6. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






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






8. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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.






10. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






11. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






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






13. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






14. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






16. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






18. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






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






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






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






23. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






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






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






26. Tell how things are alike and different






27. Character pitted against protagonist






28. The study of the sources and development of words






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






30. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






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






32. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






33. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






34. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






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






47. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






48. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






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