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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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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






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






3. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






4. 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.






5. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






8. Testimony that is presented word for word.






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






14. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






15. Lacking stimulating characteristics






16. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






17. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






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






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






20. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






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






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






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






24. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






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






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. A system of scaffolds






31. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






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






33. Describe in vivid detail






34. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






43. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






44. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






45. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






46. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






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






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






49. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






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