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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Cite
Flashback
Mood
2. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Stereotype
Informative/explanatory text
Soliloquy
3. 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.
In -text citation
Simile
Rhetoric
Internal Conflict
4. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Alliteration
Third Person Limited
Simile
Third Person Omniscient
5. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Independent
Repetition
Phrases
Sensory language
6. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Third person
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Cite
Oxymoron
7. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Plagiarism
Motivation
Delineate
Synthesize
8. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Indirect
Inference
Objective Summary
Tone
9. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Information
Sensory language
Suspense
Atmosphere
10. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Textual evidence
Citation
Stanza
Rhetoric
11. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Tragedy
Exposition
Hero (tragic)
Phrases
12. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Non -fiction
Aside
Evaluate
13. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Parallel Structure
Refrain
Static
14. Describe in vivid detail
Etymology
Character
Delineate
Cite
15. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Atmosphere
Imagery
Act
16. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Argument
Figurative language
Third Person Omniscient
Suspense
17. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Informative/explanatory text
Inference
Tragedy
Third Person Omniscient
18. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Pacing
Connotation
Symbolism
19. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
Mood
Hero (tragic)
Soliloquy
20. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Motivation
Evaluate
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
21. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Analyze
Rising Action
Theme
Alliteration
22. Showing little if any change
Draft
Stanza
Plagiarism
Static
23. 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
Socratic Seminar
In -text citation
Third person
Hero (tragic)
24. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Protagonist
Fallacious reasoning
Personification
Citation
25. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
In -text citation
Speaker
Textual evidence
Repetition
26. Make a blueprint of
Stereotype
Fallacious reasoning
Draft
Resolution
27. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
Complex
Protagonist
Third person
28. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Resolution
Antagonist
Setting
Simile
29. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Scene
Inference
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Alliteration
30. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Draft
Mood
Pathos
Point of View
31. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Fallacious reasoning
Resolution
Compare and Contrast
Rhetoric
32. 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.
Internal Conflict
Aside
Cite
Third Person Omniscient
33. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Motivation
Clause
Repetition
Sensory language
34. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Plot
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Plagiarism
Subordinate
35. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Textual evidence
Draft
Figurative language
Syntax
36. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Nuances
Point of View
Indirect
Delineate
37. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Setting
Textual evidence
Falling action
Non -fiction
38. Examine and judge carefully.
Cohesion
Sensory language
Evaluate
Indirect
39. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Static
Act
Repetition
Tragedy
40. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Socratic Seminar
Artistic medium
Non -fiction
41. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Euphemism
Stereotype
Counterclaim
42. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Third Person Omniscient
Simile
Third Person Limited
43. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Transition
Atmosphere
Falling action
44. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Theme
Synthesize
Subordinate
Draft
45. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
First person
Informative/explanatory text
Argument
Character
46. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Alliteration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Scene
Imagery
47. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Citation
Rising Action
Figurative language
Characterization (indirect and direct)
48. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Exposition
Symbolism
Fiction
Onomatopoeia
49. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Pathos
Information
Mood
Parallel plots
50. Give the main point or idea
Personification
Direct
Exposition
Summarize
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