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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. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Third person
In -text citation
Parallel Structure
Third Person Omniscient
2. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Syntax
Atmosphere
Onomatopoeia
Nuances
3. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Narrative
Nuances
Sensory language
Climax
4. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Parallel Structure
Connotation
Theme
Setting
5. Tell how things are alike and different
Complex
Information
Compare and Contrast
Plagiarism
6. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rhyme
Informative/explanatory text
Rising Action
Fallacious reasoning
7. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Sensory language
Figurative language
Non -fiction
8. 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.
Dialogue
Figurative language
Internal Conflict
Protagonist
9. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Plagiarism
Exposition
Symbolism
Theme
10. 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.
Flashback
Socratic Seminar
Imagery
Suspense
11. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Symbolism
Climax
Motivation
12. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Simile
Informative/explanatory text
Theme
13. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Narrative
Inference
Onomatopoeia
14. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Soliloquy
Internal Conflict
Onomatopoeia
Cross - curricular
15. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
First person
Refrain
Tone
Round
16. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Theme
Socratic Seminar
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Non -fiction
17. 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
Conflict
Nuances
Hero (tragic)
Independent
18. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Tragedy
Direct Quotation
Theme
Nuances
19. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Stanza
Non -fiction
Informative/explanatory text
Suspense
20. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Character
Round
Flat
Falling action
21. 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.
Narrative
Round
Aside
Onomatopoeia
22. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
In -text citation
Phrases
Syntax
23. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Round
Falling action
Fiction
Scene
24. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Repetition
Stereotype
Rhyme
Aside
25. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Suspense
Independent
Falling action
Counterclaim
26. Assert or affirm strongly
Artistic medium
Stereotype
Third Person Omniscient
Claim
27. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Plagiarism
Suspense
Exposition
28. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Symbolism
Static
Argument
29. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Repetition
Clause
Fallacious reasoning
Complex
30. 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.
Flashback
Plagiarism
Figurative language
Setting
31. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Socratic Seminar
Hero (tragic)
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
32. 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.
First person
Draft
Resolution
Indirect
33. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Rising Action
Summarize
Third Person Limited
Pacing
34. Crediting source within the paper.
Character
Imagery
Informative/explanatory text
In -text citation
35. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Simile
Phrases
Speaker
Transition
36. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Parallel plots
Act
Dialogue
Complex
37. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Flat
Third person
Artistic medium
Setting
38. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Cross - curricular
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Stanza
Conflict
39. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Informative/explanatory text
Act
Pathos
40. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Motivation
Fiction
41. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Climax
Setting
Mood
Informative/explanatory text
42. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Third Person Omniscient
Resolution
Textual evidence
Flat
43. An idea that is implied or suggested
Cross - curricular
In -text citation
Nuances
Connotation
44. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Independent
Suspense
Climax
Citation
45. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Refrain
Inference
Imagery
Draft
46. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Scaffolding
Point of View
Rising Action
47. 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.
Figurative language
Independent
Oxymoron
Socratic Seminar
48. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Figurative language
Personification
Citation
Paraphrase
49. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Protagonist
Alliteration
Non -fiction
Inference
50. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Resolution
Tone
Mood