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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Crediting source within the paper.






2. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






3. Assert or affirm strongly






4. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






5. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






6. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






7. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






8. Lacking stimulating characteristics






9. Main character in fiction or drama






10. 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.






11. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






12. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






13. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






14. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






19. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






20. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






21. A system of scaffolds






22. Make a blueprint of






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






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






25. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






26. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






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






28. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






29. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






30. Tell how things are alike and different






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






32. Classifying people by their traits.






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






34. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






35. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






36. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






37. A system of scaffolds






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






39. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






40. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






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






42. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






43. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






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






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






46. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






47. Showing little if any change






48. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






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