Test your basic knowledge |

Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






2. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






3. Make a blueprint of






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






5. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






6. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






7. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






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






9. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






10. Examine and judge carefully.






11. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






12. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






13. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






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






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






16. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






17. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






18. 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.






19. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






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






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






22. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






23. To examine carefully; study closely






24. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






25. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






26. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






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






28. 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.






29. Classifying people by their traits.






30. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






32. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






33. Assert or affirm strongly






34. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






35. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






36. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






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






38. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






39. 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.






40. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






41. 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.






42. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






43. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






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






45. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






46. 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.






47. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






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






49. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






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