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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






8. Character pitted against protagonist






9. Method of character development in which the author reveals the personality of character through their speech - thoughts - actions - appearance - or effects of others toward the character.






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






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






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






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






14. Examine and judge carefully.






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






16. Examine and judge carefully.






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






18. 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.






19. The state of cohering or sticking together






20. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






22. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






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






24. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






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






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






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






28. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






37. To examine carefully; study closely






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






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






40. A system of scaffolds






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






42. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






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






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






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






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






47. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






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






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






50. Describe in vivid detail







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