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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Classifying people by their traits.






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






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






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






9. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






10. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






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






13. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






14. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






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






16. Assert or affirm strongly






17. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






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






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






20. Main character in fiction or drama






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






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






23. A system of scaffolds






24. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






25. Tell how things are alike and different






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






27. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






28. 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.






29. Make a blueprint of






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






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






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






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






40. To examine carefully; study closely






41. Crediting source within the paper.






42. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






43. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






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






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






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






47. Classifying people by their traits.






48. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






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






50. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else