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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Connotation
Aside
Scene
Imagery
2. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Climax
Onomatopoeia
Draft
Synthesize
3. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Rhetoric
Symbolism
Parallel Structure
4. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Indirect
Claim
Information
Speaker
5. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Rhetoric
Resolution
Exposition
Delineate
6. Make a blueprint of
Direct
Exposition
Formal
Draft
7. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Cohesion
Non -fiction
Tone
Repetition
8. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Complex
Suspense
Nuances
9. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Mood
Alliteration
Synthesize
Fallacious reasoning
10. Make a blueprint of
Information
Draft
Cross - curricular
Flashback
11. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Transition
Compare and Contrast
Narrative
12. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Falling action
First person
Parallel plots
Climax
13. To examine carefully; study closely
Static
Compare and Contrast
Analyze
Flashback
14. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Pathos
Citation
Plot
15. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Scene
Complex
Euphemism
Pathos
16. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Compare and Contrast
Cite
Draft
Parallel Structure
17. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Transition
Counterclaim
Textual evidence
Tone
18. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Third Person Limited
Delineate
Theme
19. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Repetition
Summarize
Symbolism
Exposition
20. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Cohesion
Claim
Conjunctive adverbs
Repetition
21. Tell how things are alike and different
Subordinate
Compare and Contrast
Analyze
Artistic medium
22. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Cross - curricular
Pathos
Character
Conflict
23. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Analyze
Nuances
Plot
24. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
First person
Subordinate
Clause
Cohesion
25. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Etymology
Scaffolding
Aside
Alliteration
26. Assert or affirm strongly
Non -fiction
In -text citation
Subordinate
Claim
27. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Alliteration
Flashback
Transition
28. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Flat
Stanza
Analyze
29. Crediting source within the paper.
Indirect
Third Person Limited
In -text citation
Argument
30. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Personification
Stanza
Clause
Nuances
31. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Third Person Limited
Connotation
Complex
Plagiarism
32. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Nuances
Compare and Contrast
Artistic medium
Rising Action
33. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Scaffolding
Non -fiction
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Etymology
34. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Fiction
Independent
Atmosphere
Rising Action
35. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Compare and Contrast
Textual evidence
Rising Action
Fallacious reasoning
36. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Fallacious reasoning
Simile
Transition
Informative/explanatory text
37. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
In -text citation
Rising Action
Flat
Subordinate
38. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Third person
Complex
Counterclaim
Direct Quotation
39. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Internal Conflict
Resolution
Evaluate
40. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Narrative
Transition
Resolution
Conjunctive adverbs
41. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Etymology
Round
Information
42. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Claim
Third Person Limited
Symbolism
Transition
43. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Aside
In -text citation
Exposition
Symbolism
44. 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.
Indirect
In -text citation
Flashback
Informative/explanatory text
45. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Simile
Citation
Pacing
46. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Climax
Summarize
Plot
Rhetoric
47. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Counterclaim
Personification
Parallel plots
Protagonist
48. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Static
Scaffolding
Third Person Omniscient
49. 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.
Round
Indirect
Socratic Seminar
In -text citation
50. Lacking stimulating characteristics
In -text citation
Protagonist
Textual evidence
Flat
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