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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Direct
Hero (tragic)
Paraphrase
Independent
2. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Synthesize
Third Person Limited
Conflict
Complex
3. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Climax
Exposition
Clause
Point of View
4. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Internal Conflict
Pacing
5. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Stereotype
Third Person Limited
Rising Action
6. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Pathos
Act
Cohesion
Phrases
7. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Direct Quotation
Point of View
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
8. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Round
Parallel Structure
Flat
9. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Paraphrase
Figurative language
Rising Action
Cite
10. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Antagonist
Static
Tragedy
11. Tell how things are alike and different
Motivation
Direct
Stanza
Compare and Contrast
12. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Dialogue
Theme
Scaffolding
13. 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.
Conflict
Internal Conflict
Direct Quotation
Etymology
14. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Informative/explanatory text
Textual evidence
Paraphrase
15. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Textual evidence
Third Person Limited
Delineate
Narrative
16. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Phrases
Simile
Stanza
Compare and Contrast
17. 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.
Conflict
Draft
Static
Aside
18. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Third Person Omniscient
Fallacious reasoning
Dialogue
Complex
19. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
First person
Transition
Inference
Scene
20. 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
Cite
Repetition
Euphemism
21. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Point of View
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Round
22. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Conflict
Cross - curricular
Suspense
Onomatopoeia
23. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Rhetoric
Syntax
Theme
Symbolism
24. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Direct
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Paraphrase
Internal Conflict
25. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Synthesize
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Figurative language
Tragedy
26. Give the main point or idea
Objective Summary
Plagiarism
Summarize
Exposition
27. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Resolution
Clause
Transition
Stereotype
28. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Alliteration
Stanza
Socratic Seminar
Protagonist
29. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Objective Summary
Refrain
Subordinate
Personification
30. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Synthesize
Mood
Phrases
Aside
31. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Narrative
Setting
Draft
Scene
32. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Etymology
Setting
Synthesize
Pathos
33. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Cross - curricular
Theme
Speaker
Conjunctive adverbs
34. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Stanza
Exposition
Rhyme
Motivation
35. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Etymology
Inference
Protagonist
Cohesion
36. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Falling action
Parallel plots
Complex
Oxymoron
37. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Information
Citation
Pathos
Figurative language
38. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Draft
Third person
Rhetoric
Oxymoron
39. Character pitted against protagonist
Sensory language
Antagonist
Narrative
Hero (tragic)
40. To examine carefully; study closely
Scene
Analyze
Nuances
Tragedy
41. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Informative/explanatory text
Dialogue
Onomatopoeia
42. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Climax
Connotation
Information
43. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Dialogue
Alliteration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Artistic medium
44. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Onomatopoeia
Plot
Cross - curricular
45. Main character in fiction or drama
Parallel plots
Simile
Protagonist
Refrain
46. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Theme
Rising Action
Rhyme
Analyze
47. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Draft
Tone
Act
48. Make a blueprint of
Stereotype
Draft
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Conflict
49. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Cross - curricular
Plagiarism
Internal Conflict
Third person
50. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Inference
Oxymoron
Independent
Argument
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