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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Flat
Informative/explanatory text
Conflict
2. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Fiction
Independent
In -text citation
3. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Complex
Dialogue
Figurative language
Subordinate
4. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Claim
Nuances
Plot
Act
5. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Syntax
Simile
First person
Stanza
6. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Draft
Cross - curricular
Dialogue
7. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Argument
Parallel Structure
Indirect
Claim
8. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Phrases
Informative/explanatory text
Pacing
Delineate
9. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Summarize
Informative/explanatory text
Tone
Nuances
10. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Narrative
Nuances
Parallel plots
Cite
11. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Personification
Aside
Imagery
12. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Rhetoric
First person
Scene
Indirect
13. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Inference
Protagonist
Delineate
Onomatopoeia
14. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Subordinate
Direct
Complex
Clause
15. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Symbolism
Cite
Flat
Pathos
16. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Synthesize
Resolution
Counterclaim
Characterization (indirect and direct)
17. 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
Hero (tragic)
Falling action
Aside
Syntax
18. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Soliloquy
Falling action
Third Person Omniscient
Symbolism
19. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Draft
Symbolism
Parallel plots
Simile
20. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Alliteration
Character
Stanza
Draft
21. Crediting source within the paper.
Cross - curricular
In -text citation
Cohesion
Phrases
22. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Conjunctive adverbs
Direct
Protagonist
Syntax
23. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Internal Conflict
Phrases
Euphemism
24. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Draft
Summarize
Tragedy
Soliloquy
25. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Fallacious reasoning
Atmosphere
Falling action
Stanza
26. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Refrain
Formal
Syntax
Theme
27. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Connotation
Alliteration
Oxymoron
Oxymoron
28. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Exposition
Repetition
Non -fiction
Inference
29. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Figurative language
Counterclaim
Fallacious reasoning
30. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Third Person Omniscient
Third Person Limited
Internal Conflict
31. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Imagery
Subordinate
Fallacious reasoning
32. The state of cohering or sticking together
Indirect
Cross - curricular
Cohesion
Clause
33. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Cross - curricular
Rhetoric
Plot
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
34. Make a blueprint of
Conflict
Cross - curricular
Draft
Formal
35. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Conjunctive adverbs
Informative/explanatory text
Inference
Tragedy
36. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Syntax
Clause
Stereotype
Delineate
37. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Third person
Tone
Nuances
38. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Conflict
Sensory language
Fallacious reasoning
Independent
39. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Character
Informative/explanatory text
Falling action
40. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Argument
Parallel plots
Citation
Act
41. The study of the sources and development of words
Dialogue
Theme
Etymology
Pacing
42. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Plot
Stanza
Falling action
Speaker
43. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Independent
Scene
Stereotype
Inference
44. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Paraphrase
Counterclaim
Sensory language
Motivation
45. Classifying people by their traits.
Etymology
Scene
Stereotype
First person
46. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Citation
Direct
Aside
Conjunctive adverbs
47. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Speaker
Exposition
Internal Conflict
Symbolism
48. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Third Person Limited
Evaluate
Scene
Alliteration
49. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Exposition
Inference
Mood
50. 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.
Plot
Euphemism
Flashback
Indirect
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