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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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1. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Direct
Personification
Exposition
Subordinate
2. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Resolution
Cohesion
Information
Paraphrase
3. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Synthesize
Formal
Analyze
Third person
4. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Indirect
Round
Simile
5. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Climax
Onomatopoeia
Hero (tragic)
Analyze
6. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Imagery
Fiction
Flashback
7. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Syntax
Rising Action
Dialogue
Counterclaim
8. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Textual evidence
Imagery
Indirect
Cohesion
9. Assert or affirm strongly
Claim
Parallel Structure
Pacing
Draft
10. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Climax
Pacing
First person
Non -fiction
11. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Direct Quotation
Figurative language
Socratic Seminar
Conjunctive adverbs
12. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Tone
Scene
Narrative
Simile
13. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Cite
Resolution
Characterization (indirect and direct)
14. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Mood
Claim
Personification
Euphemism
15. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Rhyme
Etymology
Conflict
16. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Cohesion
Falling action
Hero (tragic)
Conflict
17. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
First person
Cite
Pacing
Rising Action
18. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Fallacious reasoning
Parallel plots
Objective Summary
Cite
19. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Compare and Contrast
Parallel plots
Resolution
Flashback
20. A system of scaffolds
Climax
Symbolism
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Scaffolding
21. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Objective Summary
Setting
Aside
22. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Personification
Textual evidence
Socratic Seminar
Cite
23. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Complex
Plot
Sensory language
24. 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.
Personification
Resolution
Socratic Seminar
Third person
25. Character pitted against protagonist
Climax
Antagonist
Analyze
Fiction
26. 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.
Imagery
Aside
Rhyme
Citation
27. The study of the sources and development of words
Pathos
Climax
Etymology
Delineate
28. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Symbolism
First person
Narrative
Simile
29. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Complex
Symbolism
Phrases
30. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Climax
Tone
Symbolism
Personification
31. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Act
Independent
Sensory language
32. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Rhyme
Hero (tragic)
Dialogue
33. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Hero (tragic)
Internal Conflict
Citation
Flashback
34. 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.
Suspense
Scaffolding
Socratic Seminar
Information
35. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Independent
Parallel Structure
Flashback
Etymology
36. 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
Conjunctive adverbs
Onomatopoeia
Hero (tragic)
Direct
37. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Figurative language
Setting
Non -fiction
Counterclaim
38. Showing little if any change
Rhyme
Cite
Static
Simile
39. Describe in vivid detail
Exposition
Delineate
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Cohesion
40. 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
Suspense
Falling action
Simile
41. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Personification
Atmosphere
Analyze
Paraphrase
42. Classifying people by their traits.
Simile
Paraphrase
Setting
Stereotype
43. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Evaluate
Pathos
Euphemism
Flat
44. 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
Hero (tragic)
Formal
Rhetoric
Cross - curricular
45. The state of cohering or sticking together
Plot
Repetition
Falling action
Cohesion
46. A system of scaffolds
Falling action
Stereotype
Scaffolding
Atmosphere
47. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Round
Scaffolding
Draft
Independent
48. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Internal Conflict
Tone
Dialogue
Suspense
49. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Indirect
Static
Informative/explanatory text
Parallel plots
50. 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.
Parallel plots
Tragedy
Plagiarism
Aside