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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. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Third Person Limited
Formal
Fiction
2. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Informative/explanatory text
Cross - curricular
Third person
Argument
3. Examine and judge carefully.
Figurative language
Compare and Contrast
Evaluate
Refrain
4. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Summarize
Evaluate
Dialogue
Synthesize
5. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.
Internal Conflict
Socratic Seminar
Parallel Structure
Setting
6. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Cohesion
Direct Quotation
Static
Rhetoric
7. Showing little if any change
Claim
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Static
Indirect
8. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Plagiarism
Cite
Information
Symbolism
9. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Aside
Conjunctive adverbs
Conflict
10. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Exposition
Refrain
Resolution
Evaluate
11. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
In -text citation
Cite
Setting
Round
12. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Personification
Evaluate
Subordinate
Symbolism
13. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Conjunctive adverbs
Stereotype
Symbolism
Internal Conflict
14. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Claim
Alliteration
Symbolism
Socratic Seminar
15. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Point of View
Connotation
Syntax
Counterclaim
16. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Direct
Direct Quotation
Argument
17. 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
Non -fiction
Nuances
Delineate
18. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Static
Antagonist
Rising Action
Direct
19. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
First person
Falling action
Transition
20. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Static
Repetition
Character
Delineate
21. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Etymology
In -text citation
Narrative
Refrain
22. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Pacing
Subordinate
Simile
Indirect
23. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Cite
Simile
Alliteration
24. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
First person
Argument
Transition
Third Person Limited
25. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Pacing
Tragedy
Point of View
First person
26. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Direct Quotation
Tragedy
Speaker
Compare and Contrast
27. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Rhyme
Antagonist
Indirect
28. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Informative/explanatory text
Repetition
Subordinate
Climax
29. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Direct
Third Person Limited
Plagiarism
Flat
30. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Argument
Objective Summary
Atmosphere
31. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Setting
Symbolism
Pathos
Hero (tragic)
32. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Speaker
Antagonist
Cite
Dialogue
33. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Oxymoron
Fallacious reasoning
Antagonist
Draft
34. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Static
Suspense
Socratic Seminar
Draft
35. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Stereotype
Resolution
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Cohesion
36. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Scaffolding
Falling action
Mood
Protagonist
37. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Antagonist
Cross - curricular
Argument
Sensory language
38. Assert or affirm strongly
Onomatopoeia
Falling action
Rhyme
Claim
39. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Counterclaim
Climax
Pathos
Simile
40. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Figurative language
Character
Antagonist
Complex
41. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Draft
Stanza
Setting
Synthesize
42. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Syntax
Clause
In -text citation
43. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Direct Quotation
Simile
First person
Scene
44. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Internal Conflict
Third Person Limited
Exposition
Round
45. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Repetition
Indirect
Hero (tragic)
Refrain
46. Describe in vivid detail
Parallel Structure
Claim
Delineate
Objective Summary
47. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Transition
Independent
Tone
Flat
48. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Tragedy
Nuances
Pacing
Complex
49. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Tragedy
Tone
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Figurative language
50. Main character in fiction or drama
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Third Person Omniscient
Fiction
Protagonist