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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Character pitted against protagonist






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






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






4. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






5. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. Tell how things are alike and different






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






14. Classifying people by their traits.






15. 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.






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






17. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






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






19. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






20. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






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






23. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






25. The study of the sources and development of words






26. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






32. Make a blueprint of






33. A system of scaffolds






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






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






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






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






38. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






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






40. Main character in fiction or drama






41. An idea that is implied or suggested






42. Showing little if any change






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






44. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






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






46. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






47. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






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






49. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






50. Crediting source within the paper.