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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Describe in vivid detail






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






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






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






5. 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






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






7. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






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






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






11. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






12. Make a blueprint of






13. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






27. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






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






29. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






31. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






32. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






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






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






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






36. Crediting source within the paper.






37. Lacking stimulating characteristics






38. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. The study of the sources and development of words






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






45. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






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






47. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






48. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






50. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences