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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






3. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






4. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






6. Make a blueprint of






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






8. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






9. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






10. Make a blueprint of






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






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






13. To examine carefully; study closely






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






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






16. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






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






18. Using language effectively to please or persuade






19. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






20. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






21. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






24. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






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






26. Assert or affirm strongly






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






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






29. Crediting source within the paper.






30. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






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






32. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






33. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






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






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






37. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






38. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






40. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






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






42. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






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






44. 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.






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






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






47. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






48. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






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.






50. Lacking stimulating characteristics







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