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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






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






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






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






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






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






8. Using language effectively to please or persuade






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Examine and judge carefully.






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






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






18. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






19. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






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






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






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






23. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






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






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






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






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






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






29. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






30. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






32. Crediting source within the paper.






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






40. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






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. 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.






43. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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.






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






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