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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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english
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vocabulary
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1. Give the main point or idea
Fiction
Summarize
Symbolism
Claim
2. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Antagonist
Round
Draft
3. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Third Person Omniscient
Formal
Setting
4. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Transition
Setting
Synthesize
Aside
5. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Conflict
Syntax
Euphemism
Point of View
6. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Pacing
Fallacious reasoning
Soliloquy
Independent
7. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Complex
Third Person Limited
Refrain
Point of View
8. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Tone
Synthesize
Paraphrase
Aside
9. To examine carefully; study closely
Oxymoron
Cohesion
Onomatopoeia
Analyze
10. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Simile
Motivation
Alliteration
11. The study of the sources and development of words
Plagiarism
Etymology
Stanza
Rising Action
12. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Compare and Contrast
Syntax
Theme
13. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Symbolism
Subordinate
Repetition
14. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Hero (tragic)
Inference
Refrain
Summarize
15. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Phrases
Tone
Flat
Motivation
16. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Scene
Soliloquy
Mood
Onomatopoeia
17. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Antagonist
Stanza
Speaker
18. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Flat
Informative/explanatory text
Stereotype
Alliteration
19. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
In -text citation
Sensory language
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Suspense
20. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Hero (tragic)
Setting
Information
Evaluate
21. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Parallel plots
Third person
Onomatopoeia
Evaluate
22. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Clause
Third Person Limited
Analyze
23. 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.
Flashback
Argument
Socratic Seminar
Textual evidence
24. Tell how things are alike and different
Theme
Compare and Contrast
Paraphrase
Inference
25. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
In -text citation
Act
Motivation
Conflict
26. Assert or affirm strongly
Theme
Claim
Antagonist
Scene
27. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Aside
Narrative
Simile
Formal
28. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Cross - curricular
Nuances
Pacing
Theme
29. Make a blueprint of
Conflict
Textual evidence
Draft
Indirect
30. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Euphemism
In -text citation
Rhetoric
Euphemism
31. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Internal Conflict
Pacing
Conjunctive adverbs
Round
32. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Syntax
Indirect
Suspense
Round
33. The narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening.
Third Person Omniscient
Personification
Direct Quotation
Syntax
34. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Artistic medium
Scene
Third person
Cross - curricular
35. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Summarize
Cross - curricular
Claim
Cite
36. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Draft
Character
Symbolism
Claim
37. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Complex
Third Person Limited
Syntax
Phrases
38. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Conflict
Resolution
Antagonist
39. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Conflict
Stanza
Paraphrase
Phrases
40. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Cross - curricular
Speaker
Rising Action
41. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Figurative language
Third Person Limited
Indirect
Falling action
42. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Conjunctive adverbs
Information
Rising Action
Syntax
43. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Climax
Imagery
Mood
Euphemism
44. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Delineate
Speaker
Textual evidence
Parallel Structure
45. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Pacing
Rhetoric
Falling action
Third Person Limited
46. The state of cohering or sticking together
Plagiarism
Personification
Plagiarism
Cohesion
47. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Cohesion
Refrain
Third person
Motivation
48. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Third Person Limited
Personification
Theme
Antagonist
49. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Cohesion
Rhyme
Rising Action
Aside
50. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Paraphrase
Plagiarism
Internal Conflict
Third Person Omniscient
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