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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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common-core
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Figurative language
Paraphrase
Phrases
Formal
2. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Parallel plots
Falling action
Repetition
Subordinate
3. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Personification
Third person
Plot
Mood
4. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Direct Quotation
Conflict
Subordinate
5. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Pathos
Scene
Aside
6. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Oxymoron
Atmosphere
Motivation
7. Examine and judge carefully.
Connotation
Draft
Draft
Evaluate
8. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Alliteration
Character
Cross - curricular
Evaluate
9. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Conflict
Mood
Transition
Flat
10. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Soliloquy
Symbolism
Falling action
11. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
Hero (tragic)
Symbolism
Information
12. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Tone
Cross - curricular
Artistic medium
Pacing
13. 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.
Cross - curricular
Evaluate
Internal Conflict
Cohesion
14. 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
Etymology
Rhetoric
Internal Conflict
Hero (tragic)
15. Make a blueprint of
Soliloquy
Symbolism
Fallacious reasoning
Draft
16. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Fallacious reasoning
Round
Character
17. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Draft
Pathos
Speaker
Rhyme
18. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Personification
Phrases
Atmosphere
Pacing
19. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Phrases
Oxymoron
Independent
Aside
20. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Flashback
Cross - curricular
Act
Parallel Structure
21. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Nuances
Rhetoric
Speaker
22. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Synthesize
Soliloquy
Refrain
Syntax
23. Showing little if any change
Tone
Personification
Formal
Static
24. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Scene
Independent
Rhyme
Falling action
25. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Citation
Stanza
Evaluate
Plot
26. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Independent
Draft
Complex
Alliteration
27. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Synthesize
Plot
Refrain
First person
28. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Citation
Formal
Objective Summary
Mood
29. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Textual evidence
Setting
Figurative language
Rising Action
30. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Aside
Rhyme
Pathos
31. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Alliteration
Syntax
Pathos
32. To examine carefully; study closely
Character
Draft
Analyze
Characterization (indirect and direct)
33. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Pathos
Nuances
Tone
34. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Resolution
Citation
Informative/explanatory text
35. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Draft
Euphemism
Setting
Soliloquy
36. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Argument
Information
Summarize
Draft
37. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Alliteration
Figurative language
Indirect
Paraphrase
38. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Connotation
Parallel plots
Atmosphere
Atmosphere
39. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Evaluate
Third person
Symbolism
40. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Direct Quotation
Direct
Pacing
Rhyme
41. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Flat
Suspense
Conflict
Falling action
42. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Parallel plots
Syntax
Evaluate
43. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Euphemism
Scaffolding
Atmosphere
44. An idea that is implied or suggested
Scaffolding
Connotation
Direct Quotation
Hero (tragic)
45. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Alliteration
Flashback
Informative/explanatory text
Suspense
46. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Antagonist
Cite
Personification
Etymology
47. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Scene
Synthesize
Counterclaim
48. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Tone
Fiction
Socratic Seminar
49. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Internal Conflict
Stanza
Connotation
50. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Conjunctive adverbs
Narrative
Oxymoron