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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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
Flashback
Imagery
Hero (tragic)
Clause
2. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Rhetoric
Parallel plots
Atmosphere
Scaffolding
3. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Formal
Third person
In -text citation
4. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Simile
Cross - curricular
First person
Resolution
5. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Tragedy
Figurative language
Summarize
Synthesize
6. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Symbolism
Draft
Direct
Personification
7. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Stanza
Evaluate
Rhyme
8. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Alliteration
Parallel plots
Subordinate
Informative/explanatory text
9. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Refrain
Cohesion
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Clause
10. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Formal
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Simile
Information
11. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Euphemism
Refrain
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Tone
12. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Subordinate
Scene
Internal Conflict
Third person
13. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Delineate
Objective Summary
Nuances
Repetition
14. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Nuances
Stanza
Scaffolding
15. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Resolution
Repetition
Compare and Contrast
Argument
16. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Antagonist
Exposition
Etymology
Characterization (indirect and direct)
17. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Plot
Objective Summary
Formal
Alliteration
18. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Simile
Oxymoron
Complex
19. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Complex
Draft
Phrases
Symbolism
20. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Argument
Compare and Contrast
Transition
Paraphrase
21. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Conjunctive adverbs
Pathos
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Mood
22. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Conflict
Act
Round
23. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Protagonist
Rising Action
Theme
Summarize
24. 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.
Atmosphere
Objective Summary
Climax
Flashback
25. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Theme
Dialogue
Nuances
Inference
26. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Summarize
Cite
Subordinate
Fiction
27. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Falling action
Personification
Point of View
Refrain
28. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Cite
Non -fiction
Cross - curricular
29. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Hero (tragic)
Paraphrase
Cross - curricular
Plot
30. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Round
Synthesize
Argument
Transition
31. Tell how things are alike and different
Theme
Motivation
Counterclaim
Compare and Contrast
32. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Symbolism
Theme
Third person
Fallacious reasoning
33. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Phrases
Static
Point of View
Conjunctive adverbs
34. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Fiction
Narrative
Repetition
Nuances
35. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Repetition
Complex
Third Person Omniscient
Flashback
36. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Stanza
Simile
Argument
Direct
37. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Onomatopoeia
Draft
Alliteration
Stereotype
38. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Information
Protagonist
In -text citation
39. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Setting
Narrative
Transition
40. Crediting source within the paper.
In -text citation
Narrative
Connotation
Summarize
41. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Phrases
Syntax
Scaffolding
Third person
42. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Scene
Plot
Symbolism
Setting
43. Classifying people by their traits.
Summarize
Stereotype
In -text citation
Artistic medium
44. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Draft
Sensory language
Refrain
In -text citation
45. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Analyze
Transition
Independent
Paraphrase
46. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Summarize
Third Person Omniscient
Clause
47. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Rhyme
Falling action
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Scene
48. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Summarize
Indirect
Aside
Scene
49. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Flat
Formal
Character
Scene
50. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Rhetoric
Scaffolding
Rhyme
Information