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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






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






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






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






5. Give the main point or idea






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






7. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






8. The state of cohering or sticking together






9. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






10. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






11. Assert or affirm strongly






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






13. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






14. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






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






16. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






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






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






19. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






20. Examine and judge carefully.






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






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






23. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






24. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






25. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






27. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






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






29. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






30. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






31. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






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






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






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






37. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






38. 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.






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






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






41. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






42. Assert or affirm strongly






43. Classifying people by their traits.






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






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






46. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






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






48. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






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






50. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration