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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. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Pacing
Artistic medium
Tone
Phrases
2. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Textual evidence
Informative/explanatory text
Information
Summarize
3. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Resolution
Third Person Limited
Rising Action
Refrain
4. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Direct Quotation
Alliteration
Round
Point of View
5. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Soliloquy
Stereotype
Aside
Objective Summary
6. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Textual evidence
Direct Quotation
Tone
Imagery
7. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Connotation
Aside
Motivation
8. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Complex
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Speaker
9. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Third person
Citation
Parallel plots
Oxymoron
10. Showing little if any change
Static
Transition
Artistic medium
Nuances
11. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Figurative language
Act
Plot
Socratic Seminar
12. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Oxymoron
Exposition
Pathos
Rhetoric
13. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Indirect
Phrases
Syntax
Stereotype
14. 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.
Setting
Synthesize
Internal Conflict
Etymology
15. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Tragedy
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Flashback
16. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Cite
Claim
Cohesion
17. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Inference
Onomatopoeia
Pathos
Parallel plots
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
Imagery
Narrative
Setting
19. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Stereotype
Narrative
Delineate
20. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Simile
Suspense
Climax
Clause
21. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Speaker
Static
Paraphrase
Formal
22. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Third Person Omniscient
Direct
Atmosphere
Draft
23. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Nuances
Tone
Phrases
Flat
24. Tell how things are alike and different
Pacing
Repetition
Compare and Contrast
Stereotype
25. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Third Person Limited
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Informative/explanatory text
Euphemism
26. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Artistic medium
Exposition
Symbolism
Draft
27. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Soliloquy
Connotation
Direct
Cross - curricular
28. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Indirect
Imagery
Round
29. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Plot
Rhyme
Soliloquy
Theme
30. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Flashback
Information
Synthesize
31. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Conjunctive adverbs
Inference
Textual evidence
32. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Transition
Cross - curricular
Counterclaim
Compare and Contrast
33. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Parallel plots
Direct
Sensory language
34. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Fiction
Pacing
Alliteration
Etymology
35. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Onomatopoeia
Character
Personification
Tone
36. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Scaffolding
Hero (tragic)
Theme
Independent
37. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Delineate
Flashback
Argument
Exposition
38. Describe in vivid detail
Connotation
Tragedy
Delineate
Antagonist
39. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Scene
Counterclaim
40. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Stanza
Informative/explanatory text
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Figurative language
41. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Flashback
Third Person Limited
Fallacious reasoning
Symbolism
42. Classifying people by their traits.
Act
Aside
Stereotype
Sensory language
43. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
In -text citation
Non -fiction
Complex
Conflict
44. 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.
Third person
Complex
Aside
Compare and Contrast
45. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Draft
Independent
Stanza
Conjunctive adverbs
46. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Evaluate
Mood
Climax
Theme
47. Assert or affirm strongly
Artistic medium
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Claim
Symbolism
48. Give the main point or idea
Protagonist
Cross - curricular
Internal Conflict
Summarize
49. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Euphemism
Pathos
Resolution
Indirect
50. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Antagonist
Parallel plots
Scene
Paraphrase