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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Transition
Simile
Setting
2. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Character
Formal
Third person
Complex
3. To examine carefully; study closely
Direct
Direct Quotation
Analyze
Suspense
4. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Act
Rhyme
Point of View
Transition
5. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Antagonist
Falling action
6. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Citation
In -text citation
Speaker
Narrative
7. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Flat
Third person
Suspense
8. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Scene
Static
Flat
Falling action
9. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Euphemism
Repetition
Subordinate
In -text citation
10. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
Symbolism
Etymology
Oxymoron
11. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
First person
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Soliloquy
Draft
12. 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.
Evaluate
Suspense
Third person
Indirect
13. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Speaker
Mood
Setting
Euphemism
14. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Antagonist
Climax
Alliteration
Delineate
15. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Claim
Refrain
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Soliloquy
16. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Direct
Draft
Tragedy
Rhyme
17. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Draft
Third person
Character
Soliloquy
18. Tell how things are alike and different
Rising Action
Pacing
Independent
Compare and Contrast
19. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Theme
Etymology
Fallacious reasoning
20. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Socratic Seminar
Act
Antagonist
Transition
21. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Tone
Subordinate
Atmosphere
Figurative language
22. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Third Person Omniscient
Inference
Pacing
Internal Conflict
23. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Connotation
Flat
Artistic medium
Information
24. 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.
Protagonist
Rising Action
Flashback
Repetition
25. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Falling action
Resolution
Compare and Contrast
26. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Non -fiction
Symbolism
Dialogue
Conjunctive adverbs
27. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Tone
Rising Action
28. Crediting source within the paper.
Oxymoron
Textual evidence
In -text citation
Flashback
29. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Figurative language
Oxymoron
Pathos
Character
30. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Antagonist
First person
Claim
31. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Draft
Third Person Limited
Personification
Act
32. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
In -text citation
Static
Point of View
Synthesize
33. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Draft
Stanza
Protagonist
Parallel plots
34. 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.
Symbolism
Nuances
Socratic Seminar
Cohesion
35. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Act
Inference
Fiction
Fallacious reasoning
36. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Personification
In -text citation
Information
37. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Soliloquy
Argument
Citation
Compare and Contrast
38. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Speaker
Syntax
Scene
Sensory language
39. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Rhyme
Inference
Exposition
Evaluate
40. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
Counterclaim
Scaffolding
41. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Draft
Conflict
Climax
42. An idea that is implied or suggested
Nuances
Pathos
Connotation
Scaffolding
43. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Independent
Scaffolding
Claim
44. Character pitted against protagonist
Objective Summary
Atmosphere
Plot
Antagonist
45. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Symbolism
Indirect
Simile
Stereotype
46. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Internal Conflict
Hero (tragic)
Onomatopoeia
Rising Action
47. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Pathos
Stereotype
Non -fiction
Paraphrase
48. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Cite
Onomatopoeia
Exposition
49. A system of scaffolds
Information
Cross - curricular
Scaffolding
Character
50. The study of the sources and development of words
Analyze
Etymology
Fiction
Conjunctive adverbs