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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. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Oxymoron
Artistic medium
Socratic Seminar
Non -fiction
2. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Plot
Third Person Limited
Counterclaim
Paraphrase
3. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Synthesize
Artistic medium
Hero (tragic)
Third Person Limited
4. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Subordinate
Personification
Point of View
5. 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.
Falling action
Etymology
Direct
Indirect
6. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Aside
Resolution
Plagiarism
Protagonist
7. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Pacing
Simile
Independent
Informative/explanatory text
8. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Direct Quotation
Rising Action
Flashback
Tragedy
9. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Counterclaim
Paraphrase
First person
Delineate
10. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Stereotype
Analyze
Euphemism
Third Person Limited
11. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Stanza
Stereotype
Third Person Omniscient
12. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Atmosphere
Non -fiction
Counterclaim
Indirect
13. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Motivation
Delineate
Artistic medium
14. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Direct
Synthesize
Sensory language
Claim
15. Give the main point or idea
Internal Conflict
Summarize
Non -fiction
Flat
16. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Sensory language
Repetition
Paraphrase
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
17. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Symbolism
Connotation
Citation
Resolution
18. To examine carefully; study closely
Scene
Analyze
Clause
Suspense
19. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Independent
Phrases
Claim
Theme
20. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Paraphrase
Pacing
Act
First person
21. Showing little if any change
Non -fiction
Euphemism
Pathos
Static
22. Crediting source within the paper.
Alliteration
Symbolism
In -text citation
Suspense
23. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Independent
Independent
Socratic Seminar
24. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Fiction
Narrative
Rhetoric
Act
25. Describe in vivid detail
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Direct Quotation
Delineate
Climax
26. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Compare and Contrast
Objective Summary
Falling action
Character
27. Main character in fiction or drama
Exposition
Third Person Limited
Protagonist
Climax
28. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Climax
Resolution
Personification
Synthesize
29. 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.
Suspense
Exposition
Aside
Draft
30. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Alliteration
Speaker
Evaluate
Syntax
31. Give the main point or idea
Scene
Figurative language
Objective Summary
Summarize
32. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Narrative
Cohesion
Objective Summary
33. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Draft
Information
Etymology
34. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Subordinate
Syntax
Exposition
Direct Quotation
35. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Argument
Inference
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Stereotype
36. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Third Person Limited
Hero (tragic)
Conflict
Internal Conflict
37. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Flat
Figurative language
Static
38. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Fallacious reasoning
Refrain
Climax
39. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Conflict
Synthesize
Figurative language
Informative/explanatory text
40. The state of cohering or sticking together
Internal Conflict
Cohesion
Personification
Antagonist
41. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Complex
Suspense
Resolution
Rhyme
42. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Flat
Non -fiction
Alliteration
Mood
43. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Synthesize
Analyze
Parallel plots
Aside
44. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Protagonist
Fallacious reasoning
Static
Character
45. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Personification
Parallel Structure
Stanza
Pacing
46. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Argument
Direct Quotation
Direct
Motivation
47. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Character
Simile
Imagery
48. An idea that is implied or suggested
First person
Connotation
First person
Analyze
49. 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.
Imagery
Refrain
Socratic Seminar
Falling action
50. 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.
Speaker
Formal
Third Person Omniscient
Nuances