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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. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Imagery
Textual evidence
Compare and Contrast
2. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Analyze
Aside
3. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Flat
Stanza
Analyze
Third person
4. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Onomatopoeia
Direct
Counterclaim
Informative/explanatory text
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.
Flashback
Nuances
Internal Conflict
Clause
6. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Plot
Non -fiction
Phrases
Repetition
7. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Refrain
Third Person Limited
Formal
Synthesize
8. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Euphemism
Indirect
Theme
Phrases
9. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Pathos
Round
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
10. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Personification
Character
Direct
Nuances
11. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Citation
Static
Act
Pathos
12. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Dialogue
Flashback
Tone
Suspense
13. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Internal Conflict
Pathos
Onomatopoeia
Draft
14. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Evaluate
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Rising Action
Complex
15. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Third Person Omniscient
Conflict
Flashback
Atmosphere
16. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Exposition
Theme
First person
17. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Third person
Symbolism
Scaffolding
18. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Phrases
Soliloquy
Theme
19. Make a blueprint of
Falling action
Speaker
Etymology
Draft
20. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Fallacious reasoning
Scene
Third Person Omniscient
Repetition
21. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Figurative language
Clause
Exposition
Falling action
22. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Counterclaim
Connotation
Rhyme
First person
23. Tell how things are alike and different
Summarize
Compare and Contrast
Sensory language
Suspense
24. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Round
Climax
Internal Conflict
25. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Scene
Antagonist
Summarize
26. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Scene
Repetition
Independent
Counterclaim
27. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Plot
Symbolism
28. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Internal Conflict
Motivation
Figurative language
29. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Exposition
Flat
Aside
30. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Citation
Suspense
Onomatopoeia
Clause
31. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Static
Fiction
Euphemism
32. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Mood
Repetition
Direct
33. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Synthesize
Tragedy
Non -fiction
Stanza
34. Describe in vivid detail
Symbolism
Stanza
Delineate
Personification
35. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Etymology
Scaffolding
Dialogue
Scene
36. A system of scaffolds
Citation
Third Person Omniscient
Direct Quotation
Scaffolding
37. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Parallel Structure
Phrases
Paraphrase
Conjunctive adverbs
38. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Conjunctive adverbs
Artistic medium
First person
Protagonist
39. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Rising Action
Cite
Scaffolding
Characterization (indirect and direct)
40. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Plot
Setting
Static
41. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Narrative
Falling action
Informative/explanatory text
Pacing
42. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Atmosphere
Oxymoron
Subordinate
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
43. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Falling action
Direct
Synthesize
Flat
44. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Inference
Sensory language
Evaluate
45. 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.
Stereotype
Pacing
Fallacious reasoning
Internal Conflict
46. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
Euphemism
In -text citation
Pathos
47. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
Figurative language
Act
Speaker
48. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Independent
Indirect
Objective Summary
Euphemism
49. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Delineate
Compare and Contrast
Point of View
50. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Synthesize
Nuances
Plot
Hero (tragic)