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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Mood
Argument
Transition
Draft
2. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Sensory language
Draft
Formal
Soliloquy
3. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Speaker
Soliloquy
Etymology
Euphemism
4. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Scaffolding
Complex
Act
Connotation
5. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Symbolism
Phrases
Third Person Omniscient
Soliloquy
6. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Flat
Figurative language
Conjunctive adverbs
Conjunctive adverbs
7. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Flashback
Clause
Compare and Contrast
8. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Rhyme
Nuances
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Point of View
9. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Citation
Socratic Seminar
Plot
10. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Conjunctive adverbs
Tragedy
Parallel Structure
Motivation
11. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Flashback
Symbolism
Personification
12. Assert or affirm strongly
Direct
Simile
Information
Claim
13. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Symbolism
Evaluate
Tragedy
14. 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.
Subordinate
Oxymoron
Hero (tragic)
Indirect
15. 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
Stanza
Static
Indirect
Hero (tragic)
16. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Rhetoric
Direct
Dialogue
Cite
17. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Compare and Contrast
Motivation
Personification
Scene
18. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Compare and Contrast
Cite
Speaker
Phrases
19. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Compare and Contrast
Cite
Pacing
20. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Onomatopoeia
Textual evidence
Sensory language
Stereotype
21. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Draft
Imagery
Atmosphere
Exposition
22. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Synthesize
Syntax
Tragedy
Rhetoric
23. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Delineate
Counterclaim
Informative/explanatory text
24. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Fiction
Fallacious reasoning
Resolution
Fiction
25. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Objective Summary
Pathos
Parallel Structure
Independent
26. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Information
Scaffolding
Counterclaim
27. 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
Parallel Structure
Internal Conflict
Draft
28. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Delineate
Sensory language
Aside
Symbolism
29. Classifying people by their traits.
First person
Stereotype
Inference
Hero (tragic)
30. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Onomatopoeia
Information
Pathos
Speaker
31. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Refrain
Suspense
Evaluate
32. Make a blueprint of
Oxymoron
Point of View
Draft
Indirect
33. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Cohesion
Independent
Syntax
34. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Atmosphere
Antagonist
Complex
Cross - curricular
35. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Claim
Euphemism
Evaluate
Flat
36. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Alliteration
Flat
Draft
Objective Summary
37. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Onomatopoeia
Indirect
Speaker
Stereotype
38. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Motivation
Stanza
Third person
Etymology
39. Assert or affirm strongly
Rhyme
Claim
Socratic Seminar
In -text citation
40. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
In -text citation
Simile
Information
Draft
41. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Artistic medium
Parallel plots
Synthesize
Soliloquy
42. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Hero (tragic)
Direct
Setting
Rising Action
43. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Act
Compare and Contrast
Suspense
44. 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.
Draft
Static
Third Person Omniscient
Resolution
45. A system of scaffolds
Draft
In -text citation
Mood
Scaffolding
46. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Symbolism
Information
Soliloquy
Artistic medium
47. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Setting
Citation
Information
Transition
48. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Protagonist
Paraphrase
Refrain
49. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Scaffolding
Independent
Suspense
Act
50. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Scaffolding
Act
Falling action
Counterclaim