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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Stanza
Textual evidence
Internal Conflict
Sensory language
2. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Falling action
Aside
Draft
Pacing
3. Main character in fiction or drama
Claim
Antagonist
Protagonist
Plagiarism
4. Examine and judge carefully.
Climax
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Evaluate
Third person
5. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Static
Dialogue
Formal
Act
6. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Plot
Character
Non -fiction
Falling action
7. Assert or affirm strongly
Direct Quotation
Claim
Transition
Dialogue
8. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Connotation
Protagonist
Complex
9. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Etymology
Summarize
Complex
Phrases
10. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Tragedy
Rhetoric
Fallacious reasoning
11. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Rhetoric
Parallel plots
Hero (tragic)
First person
12. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Direct Quotation
Third Person Limited
Setting
Personification
13. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Compare and Contrast
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Clause
Delineate
14. Main character in fiction or drama
Etymology
Sensory language
Figurative language
Protagonist
15. Showing little if any change
Static
Refrain
Third Person Omniscient
Act
16. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Plagiarism
In -text citation
Cohesion
Dialogue
17. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Conflict
Tone
Simile
Flat
18. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Oxymoron
Act
Formal
Resolution
19. The state of cohering or sticking together
Synthesize
Cohesion
Third person
Complex
20. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Artistic medium
Antagonist
Compare and Contrast
21. 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.
Static
Rising Action
Indirect
Flashback
22. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Soliloquy
Personification
Character
23. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Character
Narrative
Nuances
Etymology
24. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Direct
Formal
Direct
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
25. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Symbolism
Hero (tragic)
Rhetoric
Alliteration
26. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Figurative language
Pacing
Exposition
Pathos
27. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Rising Action
Point of View
Plagiarism
Alliteration
28. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Cross - curricular
Simile
Aside
29. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Socratic Seminar
Direct Quotation
Third Person Omniscient
Narrative
30. 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.
Rhyme
Narrative
Third Person Omniscient
Personification
31. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Parallel Structure
Etymology
Draft
32. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Stanza
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rhetoric
Refrain
33. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Third person
Stanza
Point of View
Draft
34. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
Plagiarism
Subordinate
Draft
35. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Syntax
Falling action
Mood
Motivation
36. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Etymology
Pacing
Falling action
Imagery
37. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Tone
Complex
Formal
Draft
38. Crediting source within the paper.
Suspense
Climax
Tone
In -text citation
39. Classifying people by their traits.
Etymology
Cross - curricular
Stereotype
Socratic Seminar
40. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Antagonist
Textual evidence
Soliloquy
Atmosphere
41. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Flashback
Claim
Soliloquy
42. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Narrative
Indirect
Paraphrase
Suspense
43. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Clause
Plagiarism
Citation
44. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Rhyme
Draft
Exposition
Subordinate
45. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Draft
Conflict
Argument
Imagery
46. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Atmosphere
Etymology
Subordinate
Textual evidence
47. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Counterclaim
Onomatopoeia
Climax
Narrative
48. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Cite
Oxymoron
Parallel Structure
Artistic medium
49. Examine and judge carefully.
Scene
Flashback
Pathos
Evaluate
50. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Claim
Tragedy
Symbolism
In -text citation
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