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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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1. Method of character development in which the author reveals the personality of character through their speech - thoughts - actions - appearance - or effects of others toward the character.
Complex
Indirect
Conflict
Textual evidence
2. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Mood
Stanza
Pacing
Round
3. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Artistic medium
Information
Tragedy
4. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Motivation
Atmosphere
Informative/explanatory text
Exposition
5. Showing little if any change
Connotation
Artistic medium
Non -fiction
Static
6. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Pacing
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Onomatopoeia
Fallacious reasoning
7. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Inference
First person
Compare and Contrast
Parallel Structure
8. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Motivation
Compare and Contrast
Citation
9. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Static
Climax
First person
Internal Conflict
10. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Third person
Resolution
Mood
Fallacious reasoning
11. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Compare and Contrast
Euphemism
Citation
Information
12. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Climax
Information
Speaker
Direct
13. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Rising Action
Stanza
Cite
Rising Action
14. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Alliteration
Nuances
Act
Flat
15. Tell how things are alike and different
Compare and Contrast
Character
Rhyme
Cross - curricular
16. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Non -fiction
Evaluate
17. Examine and judge carefully.
Internal Conflict
Textual evidence
Citation
Evaluate
18. Tell how things are alike and different
Scene
Symbolism
Compare and Contrast
Point of View
19. Describe in vivid detail
Argument
Direct
Cross - curricular
Delineate
20. Make a blueprint of
Fiction
Artistic medium
Draft
Simile
21. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Flat
Paraphrase
Protagonist
22. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Indirect
Formal
Tone
Onomatopoeia
23. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Counterclaim
Plot
Parallel plots
Static
24. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Delineate
Oxymoron
First person
25. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Tone
Informative/explanatory text
Parallel plots
Cite
26. An idea that is implied or suggested
Onomatopoeia
Rising Action
Connotation
Aside
27. 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.
Nuances
Figurative language
Aside
Cross - curricular
28. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Falling action
Climax
Counterclaim
Parallel Structure
29. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Onomatopoeia
Inference
Delineate
Evaluate
30. A system of scaffolds
Non -fiction
Scaffolding
Pathos
Connotation
31. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Theme
Nuances
Third Person Limited
Independent
32. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Point of View
Nuances
Figurative language
Round
33. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Fiction
Protagonist
Tone
34. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Narrative
Rising Action
Fiction
Third Person Limited
35. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Fiction
Soliloquy
Third person
Third Person Omniscient
36. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Resolution
Personification
Static
Simile
37. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Oxymoron
Argument
Analyze
38. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Aside
Phrases
Rhyme
Evaluate
39. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Symbolism
Paraphrase
Figurative language
Connotation
40. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Narrative
Aside
Syntax
Artistic medium
41. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Symbolism
Third person
Motivation
42. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Paraphrase
Rhyme
Exposition
Pathos
43. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Plagiarism
Rising Action
Clause
Scaffolding
44. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Oxymoron
Conjunctive adverbs
Hero (tragic)
Rising Action
45. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Resolution
Personification
Rising Action
46. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Theme
Parallel Structure
Third Person Omniscient
47. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Stanza
Complex
Claim
Draft
48. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Clause
Rhetoric
Conflict
Character
49. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Claim
Argument
Direct Quotation
Simile
50. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Flashback
Plagiarism
Exposition
Symbolism