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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






3. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






4. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






5. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






6. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






7. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






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






9. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






10. Testimony that is presented word for word.






11. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






12. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






13. Examine and judge carefully.






14. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






15. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






17. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






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






19. 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






20. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






21. Showing little if any change






22. Character pitted against protagonist






23. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






24. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






25. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






26. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






27. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






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






29. 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.






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






31. Give the main point or idea






32. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






33. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






34. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






35. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






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






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






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






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.






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






41. 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.






42. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






43. Describe in vivid detail






44. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






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






46. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






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






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






49. Describe in vivid detail






50. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.