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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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1. Make a blueprint of
Draft
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Sensory language
2. To examine carefully; study closely
Textual evidence
Analyze
Complex
Figurative language
3. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Direct
Argument
Rising Action
Conflict
4. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Oxymoron
Counterclaim
Symbolism
Fallacious reasoning
5. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Syntax
Scene
Internal Conflict
Socratic Seminar
6. Showing little if any change
Direct
Etymology
Static
Tragedy
7. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Aside
Direct
Cite
Direct Quotation
8. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Indirect
Connotation
Compare and Contrast
Rising Action
9. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Internal Conflict
Direct
Oxymoron
Repetition
10. Describe in vivid detail
Static
Delineate
Antagonist
Personification
11. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Internal Conflict
Connotation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Motivation
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.
Formal
Dialogue
Internal Conflict
Socratic Seminar
13. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Nuances
Antagonist
Inference
Point of View
14. A system of scaffolds
Parallel Structure
Connotation
Scaffolding
Personification
15. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Antagonist
Alliteration
Cite
Parallel Structure
16. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Nuances
Scaffolding
Rhyme
Fiction
17. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Delineate
Antagonist
Fiction
Soliloquy
18. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Counterclaim
Third Person Limited
Phrases
19. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Climax
Parallel plots
Motivation
Tragedy
20. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Euphemism
Act
Oxymoron
21. Give the main point or idea
Argument
Setting
Summarize
Hero (tragic)
22. The state of cohering or sticking together
Formal
Motivation
Cross - curricular
Cohesion
23. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Argument
Speaker
Euphemism
Etymology
24. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Conflict
Rhyme
Information
Antagonist
25. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Theme
Plot
Nuances
Information
26. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Rising Action
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Parallel Structure
27. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Connotation
Syntax
Synthesize
28. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Falling action
Complex
Transition
Setting
29. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Static
Rhyme
Suspense
30. Character pitted against protagonist
Static
Antagonist
Counterclaim
Refrain
31. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Protagonist
Compare and Contrast
Subordinate
Personification
32. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Direct
Round
Independent
Parallel plots
33. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Etymology
Atmosphere
Atmosphere
34. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Motivation
Pacing
Stereotype
Clause
35. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Imagery
Information
Tone
36. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Pacing
Soliloquy
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Argument
37. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Synthesize
Flat
Transition
Personification
38. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Theme
Fallacious reasoning
Third Person Limited
Subordinate
39. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Static
Onomatopoeia
Informative/explanatory text
Argument
40. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Point of View
Suspense
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Mood
41. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Flashback
Direct
Informative/explanatory text
Citation
42. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Compare and Contrast
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Alliteration
Symbolism
43. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Flat
Symbolism
Plagiarism
Subordinate
44. Character pitted against protagonist
Formal
Syntax
Antagonist
Falling action
45. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Sensory language
Personification
Plot
46. 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)
Rhyme
Artistic medium
Refrain
47. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Connotation
Inference
Syntax
Counterclaim
48. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Setting
Pathos
Fallacious reasoning
Independent
49. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Cite
Stereotype
Paraphrase
Atmosphere
50. Give the main point or idea
Analyze
Summarize
Plagiarism
Phrases