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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






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






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






4. Showing little if any change






5. 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.






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






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






8. 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.






9. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






10. Classifying people by their traits.






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






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






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






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






15. To examine carefully; study closely






16. 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






17. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






18. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






19. Crediting source within the paper.






20. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






21. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






22. 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.






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






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






25. Describe in vivid detail






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






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






28. Assert or affirm strongly






29. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






30. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






31. Testimony that is presented word for word.






32. 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.






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






34. Character pitted against protagonist






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






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






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






38. Showing little if any change






39. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






40. A system of scaffolds






41. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






42. Describe in vivid detail






43. Examine and judge carefully.






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






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






46. A system of scaffolds






47. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






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






49. Crediting source within the paper.






50. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.