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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Theme
Cite
Tone
Speaker
2. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Artistic medium
Pacing
Static
Mood
3. Make a blueprint of
Atmosphere
Draft
Repetition
Fiction
4. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Onomatopoeia
Figurative language
Synthesize
Counterclaim
5. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Theme
Personification
Nuances
6. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Parallel plots
Connotation
Setting
Plagiarism
7. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Textual evidence
Character
First person
Clause
8. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Evaluate
Paraphrase
Tone
Cite
9. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Protagonist
Conflict
Exposition
Point of View
10. Examine and judge carefully.
Connotation
Evaluate
Narrative
First person
11. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Motivation
Refrain
Simile
Stanza
12. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
First person
Delineate
Inference
Theme
13. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Alliteration
Draft
Scene
Informative/explanatory text
14. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Personification
Formal
Complex
Transition
15. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Refrain
Objective Summary
Sensory language
Act
16. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Scene
Simile
Complex
Personification
17. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Draft
Conflict
Formal
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
18. 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.
In -text citation
Socratic Seminar
Soliloquy
Atmosphere
19. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Hero (tragic)
Round
Euphemism
Citation
20. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Falling action
Refrain
Soliloquy
Pacing
21. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Artistic medium
Personification
22. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
First person
Narrative
Symbolism
23. To examine carefully; study closely
Inference
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Round
Analyze
24. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Third person
Suspense
Climax
Motivation
25. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Scaffolding
Clause
Round
26. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Plagiarism
Fiction
Cohesion
Tragedy
27. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Rising Action
Alliteration
Speaker
Cross - curricular
28. 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.
Information
Cross - curricular
Socratic Seminar
Soliloquy
29. Classifying people by their traits.
Rising Action
Draft
Stereotype
Connotation
30. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Personification
Conjunctive adverbs
Scene
31. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Resolution
Sensory language
Informative/explanatory text
32. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Theme
Dialogue
Rhetoric
33. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Third Person Limited
Socratic Seminar
Symbolism
34. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Objective Summary
Artistic medium
Motivation
35. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Summarize
Complex
Conjunctive adverbs
Paraphrase
36. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Refrain
Refrain
Atmosphere
Direct
37. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Plot
Soliloquy
Information
Sensory language
38. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Flat
Protagonist
Etymology
Dialogue
39. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Clause
Socratic Seminar
Character
40. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Symbolism
Flat
Fallacious reasoning
Characterization (indirect and direct)
41. 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.
Compare and Contrast
Indirect
Alliteration
Transition
42. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Argument
First person
Compare and Contrast
Conjunctive adverbs
43. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Conjunctive adverbs
Plot
Symbolism
Textual evidence
44. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Point of View
Figurative language
Third person
Subordinate
45. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Objective Summary
Evaluate
Symbolism
Syntax
46. 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.
Counterclaim
Parallel Structure
Indirect
Act
47. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Dialogue
Cohesion
Motivation
Counterclaim
48. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Fallacious reasoning
Oxymoron
Artistic medium
Refrain
49. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Refrain
Clause
Conflict
Speaker
50. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Analyze
Onomatopoeia
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Suspense