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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






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






3. Tell how things are alike and different






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






13. Showing little if any change






14. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






16. Describe in vivid detail






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






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






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






20. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






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






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






24. Character pitted against protagonist






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






26. 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.






27. The study of the sources and development of words






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






29. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






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






31. Make a blueprint of






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






33. Crediting source within the paper.






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






35. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






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






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






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






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






40. Give the main point or idea






41. The study of the sources and development of words






42. Lacking stimulating characteristics






43. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






45. Showing little if any change






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






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






48. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






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






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