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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. 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.
Third Person Limited
Motivation
Dialogue
Socratic Seminar
2. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Phrases
Third Person Limited
Pacing
Information
3. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Objective Summary
Evaluate
Subordinate
Direct
4. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Climax
Conflict
Symbolism
5. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Connotation
Act
Rising Action
Tragedy
6. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Phrases
Syntax
Cohesion
Narrative
7. Main character in fiction or drama
Draft
Suspense
Protagonist
Independent
8. 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
Setting
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Counterclaim
9. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Direct
Synthesize
Exposition
10. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Draft
Cross - curricular
Subordinate
11. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Non -fiction
Synthesize
Suspense
Character
12. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Oxymoron
Informative/explanatory text
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Independent
13. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Plot
Non -fiction
Narrative
Theme
14. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Sensory language
Flashback
Plot
15. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Resolution
Rising Action
Suspense
16. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Cohesion
Claim
Stanza
Cross - curricular
17. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Oxymoron
Objective Summary
Plot
Euphemism
18. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Paraphrase
Direct Quotation
Tragedy
Draft
19. 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
Soliloquy
Complex
Hero (tragic)
Climax
20. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Counterclaim
Independent
Connotation
Information
21. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Delineate
Plagiarism
Exposition
22. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Syntax
Round
Static
Pathos
23. Examine and judge carefully.
Onomatopoeia
Complex
Indirect
Evaluate
24. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Repetition
Argument
Climax
Symbolism
25. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Round
Paraphrase
Antagonist
Scene
26. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Mood
Antagonist
Compare and Contrast
27. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Socratic Seminar
Nuances
Cohesion
Objective Summary
28. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Conflict
Resolution
Protagonist
Narrative
29. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Compare and Contrast
Artistic medium
Imagery
Characterization (indirect and direct)
30. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Analyze
Point of View
Soliloquy
Claim
31. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Dialogue
Conjunctive adverbs
Rhetoric
32. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Climax
Complex
Rhyme
Symbolism
33. An idea that is implied or suggested
Summarize
Textual evidence
Symbolism
Connotation
34. The state of cohering or sticking together
Third Person Omniscient
Cross - curricular
Cohesion
Onomatopoeia
35. An idea that is implied or suggested
Rhetoric
Transition
Connotation
Tragedy
36. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Argument
Rising Action
Flashback
37. 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.
Claim
Third Person Omniscient
Aside
Direct Quotation
38. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Antagonist
Euphemism
Sensory language
Claim
39. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Theme
Oxymoron
Paraphrase
Etymology
40. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Protagonist
Rising Action
Characterization (indirect and direct)
41. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Complex
Citation
Atmosphere
Citation
42. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Fallacious reasoning
Complex
Complex
Sensory language
43. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Alliteration
Connotation
Mood
44. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Tragedy
Parallel Structure
Euphemism
Non -fiction
45. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Non -fiction
Theme
Analyze
Speaker
46. Give the main point or idea
Third Person Limited
Conjunctive adverbs
Citation
Summarize
47. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Setting
Connotation
Syntax
Inference
48. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Static
Conjunctive adverbs
Etymology
49. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Falling action
Resolution
Cross - curricular
Repetition
50. Character pitted against protagonist
Nuances
Antagonist
Climax
Speaker
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