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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






2. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






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






4. Main character in fiction or drama






5. Tell how things are alike and different






6. Crediting source within the paper.






7. 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.






8. Testimony that is presented word for word.






9. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






10. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






12. Showing little if any change






13. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






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






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






16. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






17. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






18. 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.






19. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






20. An idea that is implied or suggested






21. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






22. Give the main point or idea






23. 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.






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






25. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






26. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






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






28. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






29. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






30. 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






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






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






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






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






35. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






36. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






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






38. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






39. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






40. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






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






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






43. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






45. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






46. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






47. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






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






49. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






50. An idea that is implied or suggested