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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Flat
Suspense
Third Person Limited
Clause
2. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Claim
Onomatopoeia
Argument
Third Person Omniscient
3. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Third Person Limited
Direct
Euphemism
Internal Conflict
4. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Euphemism
Information
Textual evidence
Artistic medium
5. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Cite
Static
Climax
Parallel Structure
6. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Narrative
Resolution
Pacing
Symbolism
7. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Non -fiction
Delineate
Informative/explanatory text
Fiction
8. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Artistic medium
Inference
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Flat
9. 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.
Symbolism
Personification
Clause
Indirect
10. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Repetition
Syntax
Narrative
Symbolism
11. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Phrases
Antagonist
Artistic medium
Information
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.
Euphemism
Socratic Seminar
Conflict
Scene
13. 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
Fallacious reasoning
Alliteration
Counterclaim
Hero (tragic)
14. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Draft
Complex
Cohesion
Sensory language
15. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Character
Sensory language
Formal
Counterclaim
16. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Conjunctive adverbs
Suspense
Stereotype
Textual evidence
17. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Plot
Cross - curricular
Falling action
Phrases
18. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Antagonist
First person
Informative/explanatory text
19. The state of cohering or sticking together
Plagiarism
Information
Cohesion
Analyze
20. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Plagiarism
Pacing
Cross - curricular
21. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Stanza
Symbolism
Parallel Structure
Euphemism
22. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Soliloquy
Stanza
Tone
23. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Syntax
Symbolism
Antagonist
Alliteration
24. Describe in vivid detail
Third Person Limited
Fallacious reasoning
Delineate
Plagiarism
25. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Complex
Figurative language
Soliloquy
26. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Alliteration
Scene
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Citation
27. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Complex
Tragedy
Etymology
Parallel plots
28. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Socratic Seminar
Symbolism
Phrases
Informative/explanatory text
29. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Independent
30. 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
Scene
Point of View
Complex
Hero (tragic)
31. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Claim
Onomatopoeia
Plot
Flat
32. Showing little if any change
Transition
Flashback
Static
Information
33. Main character in fiction or drama
Fallacious reasoning
Protagonist
Draft
Parallel Structure
34. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Personification
Inference
Textual evidence
Mood
35. To examine carefully; study closely
Speaker
Analyze
Conjunctive adverbs
Atmosphere
36. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Plot
Falling action
Narrative
37. A system of scaffolds
Subordinate
Scaffolding
Character
Parallel Structure
38. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Counterclaim
Paraphrase
Refrain
Exposition
39. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Resolution
Fallacious reasoning
Rhyme
Inference
40. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Dialogue
Syntax
Oxymoron
Internal Conflict
41. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Indirect
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Soliloquy
Direct Quotation
42. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Analyze
Argument
Act
Simile
43. Give the main point or idea
Flashback
Objective Summary
Direct
Summarize
44. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Stanza
Analyze
Argument
Complex
45. An idea that is implied or suggested
Antagonist
Third Person Omniscient
Refrain
Connotation
46. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Euphemism
Stereotype
Theme
Cite
47. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Evaluate
Stereotype
Cite
Clause
48. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Stereotype
Direct Quotation
Third Person Limited
49. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Analyze
Plot
Complex
Conflict
50. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Paraphrase
Mood
Citation
Symbolism