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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. 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.






2. To examine carefully; study closely






3. Testimony that is presented word for word.






4. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






5. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






6. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






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






8. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






9. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






10. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






11. Main character in fiction or drama






12. An idea that is implied or suggested






13. 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






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






15. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






16. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






17. A system of scaffolds






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






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






20. Assert or affirm strongly






21. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






22. 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.






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






24. Make a blueprint of






25. Describe in vivid detail






26. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






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






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






29. Examine and judge carefully.






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






31. 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.






32. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






33. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






34. Character pitted against protagonist






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






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






37. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






38. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






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






40. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






41. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






42. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






43. 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.






44. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






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






46. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






47. The state of cohering or sticking together






48. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






49. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






50. Linking with other subjects taught in school.