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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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1. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Mood
Symbolism
Textual evidence
Stanza
2. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Sensory language
Analyze
Textual evidence
Objective Summary
3. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Plot
Flashback
Textual evidence
4. Main character in fiction or drama
Climax
Simile
Repetition
Protagonist
5. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Motivation
Suspense
Third person
Symbolism
6. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Setting
Parallel plots
Independent
Objective Summary
7. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Sensory language
Transition
Act
Climax
8. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Exposition
Simile
Falling action
Third Person Omniscient
9. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Draft
Atmosphere
Synthesize
10. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Indirect
Subordinate
Repetition
Parallel plots
11. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Imagery
Pacing
Scene
Onomatopoeia
12. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Dialogue
Paraphrase
Parallel plots
Evaluate
13. Main character in fiction or drama
Speaker
Antagonist
Synthesize
Protagonist
14. The state of cohering or sticking together
Summarize
Cohesion
Symbolism
Argument
15. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Independent
Theme
Summarize
Symbolism
16. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Scaffolding
Flashback
Cross - curricular
In -text citation
17. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Non -fiction
Conjunctive adverbs
Delineate
Analyze
18. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Indirect
Hero (tragic)
Artistic medium
19. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Scaffolding
Stereotype
Pathos
Evaluate
20. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Exposition
Direct
Cohesion
Claim
21. Character pitted against protagonist
Onomatopoeia
Antagonist
Artistic medium
Resolution
22. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Summarize
Third person
First person
Refrain
23. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Figurative language
Parallel plots
Character
Characterization (indirect and direct)
24. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Act
Atmosphere
Pathos
Motivation
25. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Fallacious reasoning
Stereotype
Rhyme
Stanza
26. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Rhyme
Falling action
Exposition
Cohesion
27. 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
Evaluate
Round
Conflict
28. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Symbolism
Inference
Cross - curricular
Formal
29. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Clause
Delineate
Independent
Stanza
30. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Analyze
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Paraphrase
Tragedy
31. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Static
Clause
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Fiction
32. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Transition
Falling action
Delineate
33. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Complex
Hero (tragic)
Flat
34. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Information
Act
Tone
Pathos
35. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Internal Conflict
Textual evidence
Narrative
Complex
36. 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
Hero (tragic)
Character
Tragedy
Draft
37. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Atmosphere
Sensory language
Pacing
38. Showing little if any change
Static
Speaker
Alliteration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
39. Crediting source within the paper.
Fiction
Socratic Seminar
In -text citation
Scaffolding
40. 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.
Aside
Tragedy
Analyze
First person
41. The study of the sources and development of words
Stereotype
Repetition
Etymology
Falling action
42. 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.
Cohesion
Artistic medium
Round
Third Person Omniscient
43. 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.
Tragedy
First person
Third Person Omniscient
Pathos
44. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Citation
Inference
Rhetoric
Evaluate
45. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Euphemism
Theme
Evaluate
Summarize
46. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Textual evidence
Etymology
Symbolism
Paraphrase
47. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Subordinate
Textual evidence
Third person
Summarize
48. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Euphemism
Syntax
Motivation
49. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Cohesion
Transition
Exposition
Direct
50. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Delineate
Figurative language
Plagiarism
Informative/explanatory text