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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Stanza
Complex
Pathos
Symbolism
2. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Cohesion
Third Person Limited
Scene
Syntax
3. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Aside
Artistic medium
Fallacious reasoning
Character
4. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Mood
Soliloquy
Aside
5. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Draft
Simile
Cite
Point of View
6. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Direct Quotation
Socratic Seminar
Subordinate
Figurative language
7. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Oxymoron
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Round
Internal Conflict
8. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Rhetoric
Argument
Syntax
Resolution
9. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Subordinate
Fiction
Argument
10. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Fallacious reasoning
Textual evidence
In -text citation
Non -fiction
11. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Stanza
Citation
Imagery
Direct Quotation
12. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Complex
Clause
Characterization (indirect and direct)
13. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Compare and Contrast
Conflict
Informative/explanatory text
Tone
14. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Clause
Alliteration
Cross - curricular
Simile
15. Examine and judge carefully.
Alliteration
Figurative language
Symbolism
Evaluate
16. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Third person
Theme
Delineate
Nuances
17. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Fiction
Rising Action
Onomatopoeia
Claim
18. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Phrases
Stereotype
Indirect
Sensory language
19. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Conjunctive adverbs
Exposition
Suspense
Transition
20. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Stanza
Scene
Textual evidence
Argument
21. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Flat
Textual evidence
Repetition
Flat
22. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Connotation
Repetition
Figurative language
Pacing
23. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Tone
Phrases
Alliteration
Cross - curricular
24. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Onomatopoeia
Counterclaim
First person
Resolution
25. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Antagonist
Sensory language
Conflict
Scene
26. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Connotation
Socratic Seminar
Symbolism
27. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Information
Soliloquy
Informative/explanatory text
28. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Flashback
Parallel Structure
Euphemism
29. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Counterclaim
Paraphrase
Round
Scaffolding
30. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Phrases
Cross - curricular
In -text citation
Characterization (indirect and direct)
31. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Transition
Pathos
Antagonist
Fiction
32. Crediting source within the paper.
Symbolism
In -text citation
Character
Analyze
33. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Conflict
Direct
Climax
Parallel Structure
34. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Setting
Syntax
Citation
Tone
35. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Objective Summary
Aside
Independent
36. 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.
Euphemism
Socratic Seminar
Figurative language
Third Person Limited
37. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Motivation
Independent
Artistic medium
Imagery
38. An idea that is implied or suggested
Evaluate
Connotation
Third Person Omniscient
Artistic medium
39. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Point of View
Tone
Objective Summary
Protagonist
40. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Transition
Synthesize
Flashback
Suspense
41. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Mood
Climax
Pathos
Third person
42. 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.
Scaffolding
Flashback
Summarize
Cross - curricular
43. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Suspense
Resolution
Protagonist
Fiction
44. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
First person
Parallel Structure
Speaker
Characterization (indirect and direct)
45. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Figurative language
Informative/explanatory text
Objective Summary
Cite
46. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Phrases
Parallel plots
Repetition
Informative/explanatory text
47. 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
Citation
Hero (tragic)
Static
Fallacious reasoning
48. 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.
Indirect
Flat
Falling action
Round
49. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Soliloquy
Stanza
Figurative language
Round
50. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Direct
Euphemism
Hero (tragic)
Speaker