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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. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






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






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






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






6. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






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






9. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






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






11. Give the main point or idea






12. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






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






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






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






16. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






17. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






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






21. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






22. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






23. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






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






26. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






27. 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






28. Testimony that is presented word for word.






29. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






31. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






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






33. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






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






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






36. Character pitted against protagonist






37. Character pitted against protagonist






38. Showing little if any change






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. Describe in vivid detail






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






46. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






47. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






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






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






50. 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