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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. Describe in vivid detail






3. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






4. A system of scaffolds






5. Classifying people by their traits.






6. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






7. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






9. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






10. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






11. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






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






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






15. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Showing little if any change






24. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






25. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






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






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






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






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






31. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. Make a blueprint of






39. Examine and judge carefully.






40. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






41. 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.






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






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






44. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






45. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






46. Testimony that is presented word for word.






47. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






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






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






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