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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. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Counterclaim
Euphemism
2. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Symbolism
Third Person Omniscient
Counterclaim
Suspense
3. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Citation
Counterclaim
Protagonist
Textual evidence
4. 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.
Indirect
Scaffolding
Rhetoric
Socratic Seminar
5. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Falling action
Connotation
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Refrain
6. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Falling action
Protagonist
Suspense
Setting
7. 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
Pathos
Parallel plots
Conflict
8. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Cross - curricular
Objective Summary
Falling action
Hero (tragic)
9. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Sensory language
Euphemism
Tragedy
Fiction
10. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Compare and Contrast
Draft
Syntax
11. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Counterclaim
Claim
Third Person Omniscient
12. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Third Person Limited
Plot
Summarize
Repetition
13. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Delineate
Soliloquy
Inference
In -text citation
14. Tell how things are alike and different
Syntax
Indirect
Compare and Contrast
Parallel plots
15. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Third person
Artistic medium
Formal
Direct
16. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Inference
Parallel Structure
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Draft
17. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plagiarism
Pacing
Transition
Flat
18. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Exposition
Draft
Rising Action
Socratic Seminar
19. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Personification
Fallacious reasoning
Personification
Conflict
20. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Antagonist
Simile
Narrative
Euphemism
21. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Character
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Rhyme
22. Assert or affirm strongly
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Claim
Analyze
Pathos
23. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Falling action
Soliloquy
Setting
Phrases
24. 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.
Aside
Third Person Limited
Theme
Pacing
25. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Inference
Claim
Soliloquy
Simile
26. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Character
Independent
Simile
Point of View
27. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Mood
Round
Euphemism
Pathos
28. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Informative/explanatory text
Rhyme
Hero (tragic)
Suspense
29. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Figurative language
Inference
Pacing
Character
30. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Informative/explanatory text
Fiction
Subordinate
31. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Objective Summary
Draft
Symbolism
Falling action
32. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Motivation
Hero (tragic)
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
33. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Sensory language
Conflict
Subordinate
Suspense
34. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Transition
Repetition
Speaker
35. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Socratic Seminar
Etymology
Objective Summary
Informative/explanatory text
36. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Cohesion
Fiction
Imagery
Stanza
37. Give the main point or idea
Parallel Structure
Non -fiction
Summarize
Flat
38. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Stanza
Onomatopoeia
Direct Quotation
39. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Conjunctive adverbs
Syntax
Direct Quotation
40. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Round
Cross - curricular
Alliteration
41. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Resolution
Delineate
Mood
Alliteration
42. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Round
Etymology
Third Person Omniscient
43. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Draft
Pacing
Round
Fallacious reasoning
44. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Scene
Objective Summary
Speaker
Act
45. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Argument
Nuances
Stereotype
Complex
46. Give the main point or idea
Setting
Summarize
Climax
Complex
47. An idea that is implied or suggested
Conjunctive adverbs
Aside
Connotation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
48. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Protagonist
Syntax
Euphemism
Compare and Contrast
49. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Speaker
Exposition
Pathos
Subordinate
50. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Motivation
Rhyme
Textual evidence
Parallel plots