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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Describe in vivid detail






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






3. Showing little if any change






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






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






6. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






7. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






8. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






18. The state of cohering or sticking together






19. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






21. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






22. 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.






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






24. Examine and judge carefully.






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






26. Using language effectively to please or persuade






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






28. Showing little if any change






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






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






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






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






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






34. Main character in fiction or drama






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






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






37. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






38. Lacking stimulating characteristics






39. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






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






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






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






43. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






44. Lacking stimulating characteristics






45. Classifying people by their traits.






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






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






48. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






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






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