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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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






2. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






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






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






5. 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






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






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






8. Main character in fiction or drama






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






10. To examine carefully; study closely






11. 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.






12. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






13. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






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






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






16. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






17. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. A system of scaffolds






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






25. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






27. Make a blueprint of






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






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






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






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






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






33. Give the main point or idea






34. 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.






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






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






37. Tell how things are alike and different






38. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






39. Character pitted against protagonist






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






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






42. Crediting source within the paper.






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






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






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






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






47. Showing little if any change






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






49. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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