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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Simile
Transition
Refrain
Oxymoron
2. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Direct Quotation
Soliloquy
Third Person Limited
Artistic medium
3. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Third Person Omniscient
Imagery
Cross - curricular
Subordinate
4. A system of scaffolds
Plot
Scaffolding
Theme
Character
5. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Indirect
Indirect
Oxymoron
Falling action
6. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Subordinate
Direct
Stereotype
7. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Alliteration
Character
Resolution
Fiction
8. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Summarize
Parallel Structure
Objective Summary
Flat
9. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
Tragedy
Personification
Tone
10. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Connotation
Mood
Plagiarism
Setting
11. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Setting
Clause
Formal
Inference
12. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Information
Subordinate
Flat
13. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Socratic Seminar
Connotation
Climax
Delineate
14. 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
Internal Conflict
Setting
Third person
15. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Scaffolding
Stanza
Personification
16. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Connotation
Stereotype
First person
Nuances
17. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Stanza
Paraphrase
Characterization (indirect and direct)
18. 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
Formal
Compare and Contrast
Euphemism
19. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Socratic Seminar
First person
Imagery
Plot
20. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Exposition
Nuances
Formal
21. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Clause
Climax
Rhetoric
Non -fiction
22. 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
Motivation
Sensory language
Alliteration
Hero (tragic)
23. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Phrases
Cohesion
Objective Summary
24. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Analyze
Cohesion
Phrases
Third person
25. Main character in fiction or drama
Exposition
Protagonist
Mood
Clause
26. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Objective Summary
Informative/explanatory text
Rhetoric
Fallacious reasoning
27. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Pacing
Character
Figurative language
28. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Flat
Independent
Third Person Limited
Artistic medium
29. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Direct
Argument
Stereotype
Indirect
30. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Information
Pathos
Tragedy
Character
31. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Antagonist
Clause
Tone
Fallacious reasoning
32. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Information
Synthesize
Textual evidence
Delineate
33. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Evaluate
Act
Rising Action
34. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Narrative
Subordinate
Mood
Tragedy
35. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Clause
Etymology
Imagery
36. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Narrative
Parallel plots
Rhetoric
Non -fiction
37. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Rhetoric
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Suspense
Antagonist
38. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Motivation
Citation
Conflict
Nuances
39. Classifying people by their traits.
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Repetition
Simile
Stereotype
40. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Summarize
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
First person
Symbolism
41. Showing little if any change
Static
Imagery
Analyze
Suspense
42. Classifying people by their traits.
Symbolism
Cite
Stereotype
Atmosphere
43. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Complex
Antagonist
Characterization (indirect and direct)
44. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Syntax
Pathos
Tragedy
Characterization (indirect and direct)
45. Make a blueprint of
Cite
Third Person Omniscient
Draft
Antagonist
46. The study of the sources and development of words
Conjunctive adverbs
Personification
Etymology
Flashback
47. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Complex
Inference
Direct
Round
48. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Tragedy
Point of View
Plagiarism
Onomatopoeia
49. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Hero (tragic)
Suspense
Conflict
Repetition
50. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Round
Cohesion
Inference
Euphemism