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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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common-core
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Transition
Scaffolding
Scene
Pathos
2. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Syntax
Oxymoron
Nuances
Speaker
3. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Theme
Synthesize
Parallel Structure
Imagery
4. A system of scaffolds
Rhyme
Euphemism
Scaffolding
Delineate
5. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Synthesize
Aside
Inference
Complex
6. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Conflict
Delineate
Dialogue
Exposition
7. 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.
Fiction
Information
Non -fiction
Flashback
8. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Argument
Direct
Connotation
Inference
9. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Rhyme
In -text citation
Atmosphere
Falling action
10. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Third person
Non -fiction
Imagery
11. The state of cohering or sticking together
Compare and Contrast
Cohesion
Fallacious reasoning
Tone
12. To examine carefully; study closely
Alliteration
Third Person Limited
Atmosphere
Analyze
13. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Synthesize
Rising Action
Onomatopoeia
Pacing
14. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Scene
Hero (tragic)
Falling action
Motivation
15. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Mood
Direct
Non -fiction
Hero (tragic)
16. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Cohesion
Artistic medium
Resolution
Symbolism
17. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Figurative language
Dialogue
Transition
18. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Compare and Contrast
Figurative language
Point of View
Narrative
19. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Indirect
Personification
Transition
Personification
20. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Evaluate
Summarize
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
21. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Round
Stereotype
First person
Analyze
22. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Textual evidence
Formal
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Soliloquy
23. Tell how things are alike and different
Synthesize
Dialogue
Cohesion
Compare and Contrast
24. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Compare and Contrast
Refrain
Imagery
25. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Symbolism
Antagonist
Synthesize
Direct
26. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Draft
Phrases
Protagonist
27. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Independent
Syntax
Mood
Tone
28. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Symbolism
Rhetoric
Complex
29. The study of the sources and development of words
Dialogue
Etymology
Argument
Inference
30. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Flashback
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Act
31. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Protagonist
Tone
Analyze
Figurative language
32. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Euphemism
Onomatopoeia
Speaker
Symbolism
33. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Summarize
Speaker
Symbolism
Phrases
34. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Analyze
Phrases
Conflict
First person
35. 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.
Aside
Third Person Limited
Direct
Fallacious reasoning
36. Character pitted against protagonist
Fiction
Symbolism
Antagonist
Motivation
37. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Tragedy
Citation
Symbolism
Flat
38. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.
Socratic Seminar
Analyze
Pacing
Cite
39. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Syntax
Transition
Suspense
Counterclaim
40. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Artistic medium
Character
Symbolism
Direct Quotation
41. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Stereotype
Artistic medium
Tragedy
42. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Symbolism
Third Person Omniscient
Simile
Tragedy
43. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Evaluate
Speaker
Pacing
Information
44. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Figurative language
Complex
Fiction
Theme
45. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Complex
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Conjunctive adverbs
Artistic medium
46. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Protagonist
Counterclaim
Conflict
Motivation
47. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Mood
Refrain
Static
Setting
48. 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
Hero (tragic)
Static
Personification
Flashback
49. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Inference
Inference
Nuances
Personification
50. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Indirect
Plagiarism
Transition
Parallel Structure