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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






3. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






4. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






7. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






8. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






9. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






10. Tell how things are alike and different






11. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






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






13. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






15. Give the main point or idea






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






17. The state of cohering or sticking together






18. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






19. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






20. 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.






21. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






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






23. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Make a blueprint of






33. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






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






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






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






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






38. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






39. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






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






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






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






44. The study of the sources and development of words






45. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






46. A system of scaffolds






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






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






49. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






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