Test your basic knowledge |

Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






2. Using language effectively to please or persuade






3. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






4. The study of the sources and development of words






5. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






6. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






7. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






8. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






9. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






10. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






11. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






12. Assert or affirm strongly






13. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






14. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






15. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






16. Character pitted against protagonist






17. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






18. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






19. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






20. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






21. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






22. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






23. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






24. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






25. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






26. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






27. Make a blueprint of






28. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






29. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






30. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






31. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






32. Main character in fiction or drama






33. Crediting source within the paper.






34. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






35. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






36. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






37. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






38. 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.






39. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






40. 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.






41. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






42. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






43. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






44. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






45. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






46. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






47. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






48. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






49. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






50. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.