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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Static
Aside
Internal Conflict
Etymology
2. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Figurative language
Round
Scaffolding
Fiction
3. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Falling action
Falling action
Suspense
Onomatopoeia
4. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Alliteration
Informative/explanatory text
Evaluate
Delineate
5. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Third Person Limited
Information
Resolution
Claim
6. The study of the sources and development of words
Round
Etymology
Dialogue
Scene
7. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Flat
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Fallacious reasoning
8. A system of scaffolds
Protagonist
Summarize
Scaffolding
Personification
9. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Tone
Complex
Etymology
10. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Cross - curricular
Phrases
Nuances
11. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Imagery
Complex
Protagonist
12. 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.
Cohesion
Socratic Seminar
Complex
Dialogue
13. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Round
Protagonist
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Syntax
14. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Rising Action
Non -fiction
Objective Summary
Antagonist
15. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Citation
Soliloquy
Plagiarism
Exposition
16. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Synthesize
Suspense
Sensory language
Syntax
17. Classifying people by their traits.
Direct Quotation
First person
Stereotype
Textual evidence
18. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Fiction
Refrain
Direct Quotation
19. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Aside
Nuances
Rising Action
Oxymoron
20. Character pitted against protagonist
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Oxymoron
Independent
Antagonist
21. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Dialogue
Narrative
Clause
Oxymoron
22. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Static
Phrases
Aside
23. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Clause
Falling action
First person
Summarize
24. 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.
Compare and Contrast
Fiction
Socratic Seminar
Soliloquy
25. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Conflict
Aside
Euphemism
26. 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
Informative/explanatory text
In -text citation
Rhetoric
Hero (tragic)
27. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Character
Paraphrase
Rhetoric
Soliloquy
28. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Theme
Argument
Protagonist
Direct Quotation
29. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Cross - curricular
Information
Pathos
Imagery
30. An idea that is implied or suggested
Cite
Mood
Cross - curricular
Connotation
31. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Artistic medium
Suspense
Soliloquy
Parallel Structure
32. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Cohesion
Speaker
Fiction
Soliloquy
33. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Internal Conflict
Clause
Cite
Argument
34. Give the main point or idea
Stanza
Rising Action
Summarize
Dialogue
35. 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
Informative/explanatory text
Hero (tragic)
Falling action
Independent
36. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Direct Quotation
Cite
Non -fiction
37. Examine and judge carefully.
Plot
Aside
Evaluate
Refrain
38. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Objective Summary
Dialogue
39. Examine and judge carefully.
Setting
Speaker
Evaluate
Claim
40. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Setting
Resolution
Imagery
Euphemism
41. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Textual evidence
Complex
Independent
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
42. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Dialogue
Parallel plots
Oxymoron
Complex
43. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Clause
Imagery
Plagiarism
Paraphrase
44. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Synthesize
Motivation
Rising Action
Textual evidence
45. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Conjunctive adverbs
Cross - curricular
Socratic Seminar
Direct
46. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Aside
Syntax
Resolution
Stereotype
47. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Inference
Speaker
Sensory language
Dialogue
48. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Transition
Etymology
Mood
49. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Subordinate
Simile
Socratic Seminar
50. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Stereotype
Objective Summary
Figurative language
Phrases