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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. The state of cohering or sticking together






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






3. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






4. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






5. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






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






7. Character pitted against protagonist






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






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






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






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






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






13. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






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






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






16. A system of scaffolds






17. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature






18. Crediting source within the paper.






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






20. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






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






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






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






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






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






26. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






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






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






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






30. Examine and judge carefully.






31. Assert or affirm strongly






32. 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






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






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






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






36. The narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening.






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






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






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






40. Showing little if any change






41. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






42. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






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






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






45. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






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






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






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






49. Give the main point or idea






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