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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. 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
Artistic medium
Parallel plots
Hero (tragic)
Scene
2. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Rhetoric
Third Person Omniscient
Artistic medium
Figurative language
3. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Pacing
Falling action
Parallel plots
Information
4. 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.
Falling action
Indirect
Analyze
Alliteration
5. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Syntax
Falling action
Cite
Inference
6. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Fiction
Rhetoric
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Refrain
7. Tell how things are alike and different
Subordinate
Compare and Contrast
Repetition
Phrases
8. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Falling action
Draft
Parallel Structure
Non -fiction
9. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Subordinate
Setting
Soliloquy
10. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Theme
Independent
Tone
11. Describe in vivid detail
Cite
Aside
Delineate
Synthesize
12. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Rhetoric
Etymology
Narrative
Stereotype
13. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Inference
Character
Euphemism
14. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Rhetoric
Complex
Static
15. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Resolution
Conjunctive adverbs
Simile
Transition
16. Assert or affirm strongly
Synthesize
Claim
Subordinate
Syntax
17. Examine and judge carefully.
Refrain
Stanza
Evaluate
Protagonist
18. The state of cohering or sticking together
Non -fiction
Cohesion
Claim
Tragedy
19. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
In -text citation
Tone
Point of View
Independent
20. Crediting source within the paper.
Fallacious reasoning
Third Person Limited
Independent
In -text citation
21. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Direct Quotation
Citation
Symbolism
Rhetoric
22. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
Motivation
23. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Euphemism
Textual evidence
Nuances
Rising Action
24. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Information
Climax
Scene
Motivation
25. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Point of View
Formal
Scene
26. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Flat
Protagonist
Third Person Omniscient
Resolution
27. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Conflict
Character
Mood
28. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Dialogue
Third Person Omniscient
Simile
Symbolism
29. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Hero (tragic)
Simile
Artistic medium
30. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Connotation
Cite
Subordinate
Clause
31. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Falling action
Static
Plot
Personification
32. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Alliteration
Indirect
Euphemism
Characterization (indirect and direct)
33. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Cohesion
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Compare and Contrast
Alliteration
34. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
Third person
Mood
35. A system of scaffolds
Synthesize
Non -fiction
Scaffolding
Subordinate
36. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Tone
Exposition
Alliteration
Flat
37. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Artistic medium
Direct
Onomatopoeia
Suspense
38. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Theme
Citation
Round
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
39. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Draft
Speaker
Character
Indirect
40. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Fiction
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Nuances
41. Main character in fiction or drama
Dialogue
Protagonist
Dialogue
Oxymoron
42. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Setting
Objective Summary
Characterization (indirect and direct)
43. 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.
Indirect
Internal Conflict
Informative/explanatory text
Paraphrase
44. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Repetition
Information
Sensory language
Protagonist
45. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Characterization (indirect and direct)
First person
Objective Summary
46. 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
Symbolism
Independent
Hero (tragic)
Information
47. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Compare and Contrast
Cross - curricular
Formal
48. Classifying people by their traits.
Static
Stereotype
Sensory language
First person
49. 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.
Mood
Indirect
Conjunctive adverbs
Tragedy
50. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Static
Conjunctive adverbs
Theme
Third Person Limited